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torquillThis Monday, according to gawkercheck.com:
You can check whether any login name or email address of yours is in the released hashfiles at Gawker Check. If you re-use passwords on multiple sites, such as Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, etc., and you've come anywhere near any Gawker site, it's worth your while to check. Even OpenID info (though not passwords) is in there.
Many people have looked over the released data (it's available by torrent, for example). One article I ran across which is of some interest: the top 25 most offen occurring passwords in the Gawker files. Lesson: don't choose a password which sounds like what an idiot would put on his luggage.
There was an extremely large disclosure of usernames, e-mail addresses, and lightly-encrypted passwords from Gawker. If you ever created an account at Gawker, Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Kotaku, Lifehacker, Deadspin, io9, or Fleshbot, your information was probably released (over half a million unique e-mail addresses and hashed passwords were released). There are active exploits of this information in the wild, including spam on Twitter. Protect yourself by changing your password everywhere except Gawker.
You can check whether any login name or email address of yours is in the released hashfiles at Gawker Check. If you re-use passwords on multiple sites, such as Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, etc., and you've come anywhere near any Gawker site, it's worth your while to check. Even OpenID info (though not passwords) is in there.
Many people have looked over the released data (it's available by torrent, for example). One article I ran across which is of some interest: the top 25 most offen occurring passwords in the Gawker files. Lesson: don't choose a password which sounds like what an idiot would put on his luggage.