StrifeROKs Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 My issue is I can't remember all the various places I've used this specific combo. Urg. this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 You know, the community at the site has always been the only draw. It's a shame that they have such incompetent people at the helm. I think I may be done with Gawker completely after this though. Sure sounds like they did nothing to fix the problem according to Forbes. http://blogs.forbes.com/firewall/2010/12/13/the-lessons-of-gawkers-security-mess/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staySICK Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 yea, I keep attempting to log in periodically, but if it comes to making a new profile and going through the hassle of getting approved, I'm done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superfrogsavestokyo Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 Turns out, I used my standby junk email for it. My password is still encrypted, but I reset it anyway. (Can't remember what it was, and I lurk most of the time anyway. ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber Rat Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 Jack, you're clean. Strife, both password and email are compromised, so change your password. Acula, I'm sorry but finding "Ixa" via notepad is worse than "drag". But it seems you already checked it, so all is well I guess? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixa Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 yeah I checked with that link that Sick posted. looks like I didn't really have anything to worry about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudkip3DS Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 From: http://gizmodo.com/comment/34011087 "Once again, we're here for you, the commenter. Our posts would be boring without comments, and it's pretty accurate to say that we have some of the best commenters anywhere on the internet. Seriously, you can go to any site, look at their comments, then come back here and realize that we have it pretty freakin' great. You guys make our stories pop, and in many instances, add and contribute new facts that we hadn't considered. You guys even started a thriving community based on just comments." http://gizmodo.com/5687692/you-write-bias-journalism-and-i-read-derp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herpderp Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 Jack, you're clean. Strife, both password and email are compromised, so change your password. Acula, I'm sorry but finding "Ixa" via notepad is worse than "drag". But it seems you already checked it, so all is well I guess? Can you check HJSoulma? I'm trying to remember every single place I've ever bought something from, and it'd be nice to know whether I actually need to do that or not... *sigh* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber Rat Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 e-mail compromised, but not the password. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrifeROKs Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 Thanks Cyber. I already changed my password, but I didnt know if I needed to or not. I guess I better start changing other passwords too.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowstep Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 My issue is I can't remember all the various places I've used this specific combo.Urg.Same. I keep all of my passwords in a TXT file on an encrypted drive on two different PCs... except the unimportant ones. Apparently I considered Kotaku to be one of those sites. *L* I highly doubt I used the same password there with anything I actually care about, though. I used to keep all of my passwords in a .txt file, but I recently wrote them all down on a sheet of paper. Hurray for physical media! yea, I keep attempting to log in periodically, but if it comes to making a new profile and going through the hassle of getting approved, I'm done. I could get your account approved on Kotaku. I have one of those yellow things! If you really wanted to go back to Kotaku, that is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrifeROKs Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 Yea but gawker sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Jimmeh Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 It does seem awfully crazy that they seem to have continued with the same that got hacked. I know they want people to continue commenting, but if it hasn't been fixed properly and could get hacked again, it should be fixed so it can't happen again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drag Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 if i ever post there again someone can kill me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bouchart Posted December 13, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 I notice that the poll didn't include an option for the "peasants" comment. I didn't see that comment until after I put up the poll. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Jimmeh Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 I still can't work out what the big deal is about the "peasants" comment. From what I understand it was seemingly a joke comment by one of the Gawker writers made in June on a private chat that has been badly reported to look like it was them saying that it doesn't matter that the commenter's passwords had been hacked, which it had nothing to do with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Jimmeh Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 From the Forbes blog (emphasis by me): In perhaps a good example of don’t write it if you wouldn’t want someone to read it, this screenshot from the attackers showed up on thenextweb.com, detailing a conversation from July 22nd between internal Gawker employees noting that usernames and passwords for Gawker users had shown up on 4 chan. In the chat, Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan, after hearing that it is just Gawker users who have been compromised, remarks “oh, well. unimportant”. Gawker’s Richard Lawson wants to know if the breach is limited to “just the peasants?” http://blogs.forbes.com/firewall/2010/12/13/the-lessons-of-gawkers-security-mess/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 Yeah that chat box is from an earlier leak. A sign back then that they should tighten security. Notice how no one was alerted back then.I stead Gawker just moved to provoking 4Chan more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Jimmeh Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 Okay, it's not great that it shows that show users/passwords were leaked before this case, but that image been made out to look like it was said about this situation, which actually it has little to do with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bouchart Posted December 13, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 Yeah that chat box is from an earlier leak. A sign back then that they should tighten security. Notice how no one was alerted back then.I stead Gawker just moved to provoking 4Chan more. This is one of those odd cases where I'm taking the side of 4chan. Even though a little non-critical information of mine was temporarily compromised, I'm glad Gawker's arrogance is being punished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrifeROKs Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 So there was a leak before and THAT'S when they called us peasants? I guess I better apologize to Gawker for getting so upset. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatch Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 according to the forbes checker I am uncompromised in both pw and email which is cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Jimmeh Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 I'm just saying that it's bad reporting that has gotten people to think the "peasants" comment was a reaction to a huge loss of usernames and passwords that just happened, which it wasn't. Yes, overall it shows that the staff that run and manage the site are incompetent, and should have fixed this problem a while back, but people shouldn't be getting so upset at the writers about this comment, when their comment has little to do with the current issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixa Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 the point is though...they still referred to their commenterbase as "peasants". it doesn't really matter which leak or whatever the hell it had to do with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drag Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 according to the forbes checker I am uncompromised in both pw and email which is cool seems like the only person's details that don't appear in the hacked files must be those of ... THE HACKER THEMSELVES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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