gawker issues

[mulligan]

I know some of you guys read the various gawker media sites, and some of you may have accounts with them so this will affect you. They got compromised recently, possible blow back from the wikileaks shit storm, so your accounts may be compromised. Gawker has recommended you change the password for their sites, and if you use the same account for your email and other various services you may also want to change those. If you can create a hash, very simple in linux "echo -n <your email address> | md5sum", you can check it against the table of known compromises . I saved one of my coworkers some serious headache so I am passing it along to all of you.

Gawkers article is

[Smasha]

Who would want to comment on any of the Gawker sites. Really.

[Sauzer]

[gorv]

idk who those ppl are

[Sauzer]

gawker staff nincompoop

internal forum was part of the leaked data

[Smasha]

Ooooooh.

It took me a long time to see the significance of that picture. I was confused by Hamilton, who switched from concern to unconcern. And I was confused by Jim and Brian, who said that Gawker passwords were leaked but that the passwords leaked were "not theirs." If "they" are people with Gawker accounts then shouldn't "their" passwords be leaked?

Now I get it. The admin passwords were not leaked; just the user passwords were leaked. The admins hardly cared about the leak once they learnt that their own passwords were safe. This gap between the admin's concern for themselves and their concern for their users is why the screencap is interesting.