Nvidia, Phandroid Online Forums Hacked, Passwords Stolen
Source: Eweek
Nvidia and the Android Forum on the Phandroid Website are joining Yahoo as the latest organizations to have been hacked and user information compromised.
On the heels of Yahoo executives announcing July 12 that more than 450,000 user passwords were stolen in an attack on Yahoo Voices, Nvidia officials on the same day shut down its Developer Zone developer support Website after discovering a hack that may have led to hashed passwords being stolen.
The Yahoo and Nvidia disclosures came two days after Phandroid officials announced on their site that the server hosting the Android forum was hacked and the Website's database accessed. In their posting, the Phandroid officials said that while “the breach is most likely harmless, there are important and potential pitfalls.”
Yahoo, Nvidia and Phandroid join a growing list of Websites that are under attack by cyber-criminals looking to steal sensitive user information. LinkedIn last month reported that hackers stole more than 6.5 billion user passwords, prompting the social networking site to urge users to change their credentials. Online dating site eHarmony also had about 1.5 million passwords stolen and posted to an online forum.
Read more: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Nvidia-Phandroid-Online-Forums-Hacked-Passwords-Stolen-250501/
cross-posted to Computer Help forum also
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... all the way to my death bed. while i feel bad for users and their information being targeted...
nvidia can die. die.
lmao.
3dfx 4ever
