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DeviantART data compromised
- citricsquid 16y agoTitle is incorrect, a database belonging to a third party that contained some user information was compromised, part of the data belonged to Deviantart but the database did not.
- lhorie 16y agoAlso, in case no one connected the dots, Silverpop Inc was the compromised party for both this and the McDonalds incident yesterday. They recently pushed password resets and new login procedures for their clients so presumably a lot more people got affected.
- vaksel 16y agoI think it's telling that Gawker's database was dumped for everyone to see, why these haven't been released. Just shows you how much some people hate Gawker.
- lhorie 16y agoThe motivations look fairly different imho. Gawker's case was clearly motivated by emotions, and the Silverpop case appears to be the age old black market business showing its ugly head on mainstream news.
- mcgin 16y agoFair point, I just took the link title from the article, but your right, it should read DeviantART data compromised.
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- lhorie 16y agoWhere did you get that claim from? From my understanding, they were using Silverpop to manage their newsletters, rather than cooking an in-house email management system.
- samstokes 16y agoFrom TFA: "email addresses, birth dates and usernames may have been leaked but passwords were not compromised"
- kondro 16y agoSo, identity theft only then.
- kondro 16y ago'Tis the season to be compromised. Fa la la la la, la la la la. Change your passwords or be sodomized. Fa la la la la, la la la la.
- kondro 16y agoReally... no one else thought this was funny? In fact, it got down-voted? I thought you people had a sense of humour.