The world famous document sharing website Scribd is the Latest victim of hacking and announced that they were hacked , Scribd says that they discovered and and blocked suspicious activity on Scribd’s network that appears to have been a deliberate attempt to access the email addresses and passwords of registered Scribd users
As Scribd 1% of our users were potentially compromised by this attack.
They have emailed every user whose password was compromised with the details of the situation and instruction for how they can reset the password.
For those users who did not receive the mail they are safe and if you want to check either you are hacked or not so you can check by below web tool:
http://www.scribd.com/password/check
No content, payment and sales-related data, or other information were accessed or compromised their Investigation Team said.
Data which has been compromised is:
- Usernames
- Emails
- Encrypted passwords
Their Note for Users
We take our responsibility to protect our users’ data extremely seriously and constantly improve our security infrastructure and policies. Following this incident, we have implemented numerous additional safeguards. Not only have we taken steps to address the specific issues that led to this incident, but we are also conducting a comprehensive security review and are implementing more general measures to proactively enhance security. We are also alerting relevant authorities to the matter and will co-operate with their investigation.
A number of high-profile websites have been hit in the past year with similar attacks, opening up important questions about password security and the re-use of passwords across services. It is important to remember to never re-use passwords across services and to never use passwords that are dictionary words, names, or other easily-guessable choices.
Finally, we would like to sincerely apologize for our failure to live up to our users’ expectations in this instance. We’re incredibly disappointed that this happened and are committed to doing everything we can to prevent this from happening again. We will work harder than ever to ensure that we deserve the trust that our users place in us.
Thank you for reading and thanks for using Scribd.
The Scribd Team
