nsane.forums Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 DeviantART, the worlds largest social network for artists, has had their database exposed. This latest breach comes in the shadows of McDonald's member database and Gawker database exposures in the past two days. DeviantART notified its users via its newsletter and stated that "Silverpop Systems, Inc., a leading marketing company that sends email messages for its clients, told us that information was taken from its servers. This was probably part of a sweep by spammers. As a result, email addresses belonging to deviantART members were copied. Corresponding usernames and birth date may also have been removed ."." dsfgasdf " ". The significance is that the database contained 13 million email address that are now in the hands of spammers who may now launch a new phishing scam against the members. DeviantART, via Softpedia, states that along with email addresses, birth dates and usernames may have been leaked but passwords were not compromised. While this breach is not as dangerous as the Gawker exposure because passwords were not leaked out, it does continue the worrying trend of databases being compromised. For good measure, its always a good idea to create a strong password, one that has letters and numbers at minimum and if the system allows, symbols and case sensitive characters. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted December 14, 2010 Administrator Share Posted December 14, 2010 Last two days have been quite shocking for me. Dunno how these companies handle the security here. :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 Well.. Happy to have useless addresses for this sole purpose.. LOL.. Figures though.. You can't even run your own site without some ad spammer trying to hijack something these days.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted December 14, 2010 Administrator Share Posted December 14, 2010 But it's big this time. Can't remember any time when such big corporations's user's data was stolen one after another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 Yeah it's true.. and I would be willing to bet that possibly.. this is going to pre-ceed something much more costly and larger... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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