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The Real Lessons Of Gawker’s Security Mess. ⇒

   13 December 2010, lunch time

Gawker was taken to school by a group of hackers. I’m surprised at how horrible their security set up was considering they were openly belligerent to 4chan.

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  1. I’m a little surprised how what I would’ve thought was a reasonably technically sophisticated organization was so completely compromised. Was there anything left to hack?

    by mk on December 14 2010, 10:20 am   #

  2. No, it sounds like they basically got anything and everything. They have passwords for most/all the employees, server lists, the distros those servers are running, ftp passwords, all sorts of random ass junk. It’s pretty crazy.

    My account was apparently compromised too. I don’t even remember signing up for an account to comment with, but my throwaway insecure password is now very insecure.

    by ramanan on December 14 2010, 10:30 am   #

  3. The Gawker CTO on the hack.

    by ramanan on December 18 2010, 9:28 am   #

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