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Security breach at Kickstarter
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 10:00 pm
by Cody
Anyone else received an email alert from Kickstarter?
On Wednesday night, law enforcement officials contacted Kickstarter and alerted us that hackers had sought and gained unauthorized access to some of our customers' data. Upon learning this, we immediately closed the security breach and began strengthening security measures throughout the Kickstarter system.
No credit card data of any kind was accessed by hackers. There is no evidence of unauthorized activity of any kind on your account.
While no credit card data was accessed, some information about our customers was. Accessed information included usernames, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and encrypted passwords. Actual passwords were not revealed, however it is possible for a malicious person with enough computing power to guess and crack an encrypted password, particularly a weak or obvious one.
Re: Security breach at Kickstarter
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 10:12 pm
by Griff
yep i've had that too, best change my password
Re: Security breach at Kickstarter
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 10:23 pm
by Thargoid
Me three. Now just got to remember the password so I can change it.
Re: Security breach at Kickstarter
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 10:38 pm
by Cody
Thargoid wrote:Me three. Now just got to remember the password so I can change it.
<grins> All very irksome - I haven't had to change a password (due to a security breach) since this forum was hacked.
Re: Security breach at Kickstarter
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 10:38 pm
by Griff
I've started using 'Keypass' to generate and save passwords for me, I'm really paranoid that I'm going to forget the password I need to get into keypass to get to my passwords, I'm going to be totally stuck then
Re: Security breach at Kickstarter
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 8:20 am
by Diziet Sma
Griff wrote:I've started using 'Keypass' to generate and save passwords for me
I use LastPass for the same thing..