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In a statement on its website, Gawker Media, owned by digital publishing mogul Nick Denton, encouraged registered users on Gawker, Lifehacker, Jezebel and Gizmodo to change their passwords, and apologized for the humiliating breach.
"Our user databases appear to have been compromised," the company wrote Sunday. "The passwords were encrypted. But simple ones may be vulnerable to a brute-force attack. You should change your Gawker password and on any other sites on which you've used the same passwords."
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Gawker media has an announcement at the top of its websites letting readers know about an attack by hackers that has compromised 1.3 million user accounts.
"You would think a site that likes to mock people, such as Gawker, would have better security and actually have a clue what they are doing. But as we've proven, those who think they are beyond our reach aren't as safe as they would like to think!" the hackers wrote in a statement.
If the intent was to embarrass Gawker, the attack seems to have had that effect. "We're deeply embarrassed by this breach," the company said on Gawker.com. "We should not be in the position of relying on the goodwill of the hackers who identified the weakness in our systems. And, yes, the irony is not lost on us."
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During the Gawker takeover, the hackers sent messages supporting WikiLeaks on the hijacked Twitter accounts of Gawker's users, as well as messages promoting Acai berry, a diet drug.
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