Hackers struck at the Gawker blog network’s servers over the weekend, stealing more than 1 million rows of data, including cracked passwords. Gawker has been scurrying to revamp security on its servers as a result, and has put up an FAQ page on this issue. Meanwhile, Twitter has been hit with a wave of spam attacks that it blames on the Gawker hack. The hacker or hackers who struck at Gawker go by the name of “Gnosis” and say their attack is retaliation for the blog consortium’s mocking of previous attacks.
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The Gawker Has Become the Gawkee
Posted by: Richard Adhikari December 13, 2010 11:52 AMHackers struck at the Gawker blog network’s servers over the weekend, stealing more than 1 million rows of data, including cracked passwords. Gawker has been scurrying to revamp security on its servers as a result, and has put up an FAQ page on this issue. Meanwhile, Twitter has been hit with a wave of spam attacks that it blames on the Gawker hack. The hacker or hackers who struck at Gawker go by the name of “Gnosis” and say their attack is retaliation for the blog consortium’s mocking of previous attacks.