05 June 2013

Drupal breach compromises nearly one million accounts

.....Hackers ransacked the servers of Drupal.org, an open source content management platform, to plunder the sensitive information of nearly one million accounts. .....

......In a Wednesday blog post, Ross said usernames, email addresses, country information, and hashed passwords were exposed in the incident. All passwords were hashed, while only some were salted, an additional security layer where a sequence of symbols is added to passwords before they're hashed......

......As a safety measure, the company reset all passwords for its nearly one million accounts. ......

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