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Gawkergate Collateral Damage Now Includes the New York Times

in Enterprise on December 22, 2010 at 4:13 pm PT

In the 10 days or so since hackers purloined account data from the Gawker group of sites, several Web properties have urged users to change any potentially compromised passwords. Today, the New York Times joined the chorus.

The Gawker Hack Ripple Hits LinkedIn

in Media on December 14, 2010 at 9:37 am PT

Gawker Media is still cleaning up the mess left by a hacker attack this weekend, but now other sites have their own work to do. Today’s example: LinkedIn temporarily disabled the accounts of users whose email accounts were exposed during Gawkergate.

TwitterGate: Out Damned Spot!

in News on July 16, 2009 at 3:10 am PT

For all the noisy hubbub over should-we-or-shouldn’t-we-publish confidential documents hacked from password-protected accounts of Twitter employees, as well as a Twitter spouse, it is actually pretty simple. Stolen equals stolen. But, because this is a “hot” issue and it concerns an even hotter Web 2.0 company–Holy traffic-gooser, Batman!–the debate will surely go on and on, even as the stolen information inevitably leaks its way out. Still, let’s not pretend what it is and is not.
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