Security Risk - Change your passwords

[nesimatic]

Went to rate that autistic spaz's post 'autistic' and it got deleted right as I clicked the icon. Glad @nesimatic has more sense than I thought. I was gonna suggest you might be halal for that horrific over share of information. The fact that you realized that error and deleted the comment restores a tiny bit of my faith...

Unless admin deleted it for being so autistic...in which case you still seem pretty halal...

I deleted it, and who's halal?

 

[Yog-Spergoth]

I deleted it, and who's halal?

Halal is Farms shorthand for a lolcow that comes from our forums. Good on you for deleting it.

 

[nesimatic]

Halal is Farms shorthand for a lolcow that comes from our forums. Good on you for deleting it.

Thanks. That was pretty stupid of me to say all that.

 

[Null]

Can you idiots stop shitting up this thread? He's just being weird. Stop trying to go cannibalistic on everyone.

 

[Duke Nukem]

I do not know if they have anything, or what they might have, but I changed my entry codes regardless. It's something you should do from time to time anyway.

If the worst were to happen, there's probably not much I have that these guys would want anyway.

 

[melty]

Oh no, this was my bank account password. And my credit card and stocks and bitcoin and my white house internship logins. Sorry Obama

 

[DuskEngine]

Sorry Obama

Shocking new Obama birth documents leaked by KIWI Terror brigade, more at 11.

 

[QI 541]

Passwords are generally encrypted when stored in a database so we're probably not completely fucked.

 

[melty]

Shocking new Obama birth documents leaked by KIWI Terror brigade, more at 11.

"The internet sleuths from something called Kiwi farm"

 

[Cum Crime]

I highly recommend a program such as "KeePass" to generate secure passwords and keep track of them, along with the common sense necessary to understand that there are bad people on the internet and providing the same information to multiple websites can be used against you.

 

[Some JERK]

Man, I'm getting kinda tired of coming up with long, impossible to remember passwords for the sake of security when servers just get hacked and it gets stolen anyway.

Not blaming this site or anyone else's but come on, just let me use abc123 at this point, fuck.

http://www.passwordcard.org/en

 

[Jomadre]

Thanks for the warning, I went ahead and checked my passwords real quick to make sure everything was good (it was)

 

[CrispyBacon]

I highly recommend a program such as "KeePass" to generate secure passwords and keep track of them, along with the common sense necessary to understand that there are bad people on the internet and providing the same information to multiple websites can be used against you.

LastPass is another good one. I used KeePass for a few years but eventually switched to LastPass for the browser and mobile integration.

 

[geewizz]

You might want to send an email out for inactive/rarely active users just in case.
In any case I wouldn't worry much. Most competent/willfully ignorant users these days use Decentrailzed NSA-backdoored password storing browser plug-ins super safe very friendly password managers like lastpass that auto generate random strings during account creation and store them. This is one of those unique situations where they actually prove useful.

 

[DX10]

I think I'm pretty safe. My name is a DirectX redistributable, my email is a 1950's song lyric that only gives you the full song when searched, and in reality I'm actually just a bunch of Cold War server banks left running in a dusty arcade. Plus my password is extremely homosexual. I'm totally safe.

 

[Godot]

@Null my Facebook was apparently accessed by someone from Texas tonight so that could be related to the hacking. It was hacked like a month ago somehow and I changed my email and password to what I use on the farms (stupid I know) so I'm not really sure which hacking that it was related to but I figured you should know in case it is related to this event

 

[Kazami Yuuka]

Passwords are generally encrypted when stored in a database so we're probably not completely fucked.

I would hope the password hashes in the database are also salted as well. At least the passwords aren't plaintext entries, or else there would be serious trouble.

 

[Peter Capaldi]

Well, I am happy I'm using Steam right now... I am too lazy to use different passwords everywhere (albeit I might add or remove a number every password), so that I am in the clear is a definitely a good thing...

 

[Stud2Stud]

So that's what Chris has been up to during his radio silence

Either way, I'll change my exceedingly autistic password just in case.

But at least this thread brought the password storage function of Firefox to my attention, I didn't know about that. I've got a shitton of different passwords spread over many websites saved in my browser (which I realise is pretty dumb but oh so convenient) so I eventually lost track of a few important ones and was actually now able to retrieve them.

People actually pay to attack this website? Goddamn, that's a new level of pathetic behaviour.

 

[Silver]

I don't use different passwords because I'm naive and lazy, and always under the impression no one cares about my shit to bother. Regardless, I've changed all the relevant passwords that I care about. (There's probably a shitton more that use that pass that I just can't remember lmao)