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Re: [LUG] OT: Kick Starter Hacked

 

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 05:12:35PM +0000, Tremayne, Steve wrote:
> Slightly old news, but I've only just seen it, so thought I'd pass it on...
> 
> Apparently KickStarter got "hacked" recently: 
> https://www.kickstarter.com/blog?ref=footer
> 
> 
> I know some people on this forum have ventured to that site in the past - mainly 
> for Raspberry Pi related tech, so if you have an account, you might want to change 
> it's password... and any other site which shares the same credentials!

Using the same password at multiple places is a particularly bad idea
anyway. So if you do that, I'd recommend you change it regardless of
whether it got breached.

It's good to note that the way Kickstarter has handled it, before and
after it discovered it was breached, is something other sites can learn
important lessons from:
http://labs.neohapsis.com/2014/02/17/what-kickstarter-did-right/

Martijn.

PS Steve: replying to an old list email to start a new topic messes up
mail clients that group posts by thread. It's better to start a new
email.

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