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[hsin]

Not even in the top 700.
http://www.alexa.com/topsites

You'll have to consider the fact that even being in the top 2,000 out of MILLIONS of sites is the mark of a highly visited site.

 

[cuevas. PhD.]

Not even in the top 700.
http://www.alexa.com/topsites

It says gizmodo is 388...

 

[Hylian7]

If you don't actually use your Gawker account, you can just get rid of your email from there and change your username and password to complete random bullshit.

 

[luxarific]

Well darnit, I have an account there using my master password. :/

Changed the passwords of my e-mail, Facebook, Steam and GameFAQs. Can't remember other sites I need to go to.

You can use this site to see where else you may have used the same username. Ended up changing the password of the gmail account that was associated with my io9.com login. Don't really think it's worth doing it on Gawker. I imagine that they're going to be throwing out whatever commenter database they have.

 

[MikeOfTheLivingDead]

Sarah Palin is motherfucking Sarah Palin!

Of course, they can take moot to testify but Gnosis are taking responsibility for the hack, not 4chan.

You need to understand 4chan never takes resposibility for anything, thats the true nature of /b/. Anonymous also should never take responsibility for anything, it's implicilty understood that anons are responsible regardless who decides to take credit. This stuff starts on their boards and their chat rooms, but going after 4chan would be like going after a city park because gangs hang out there. It's probably in the best interest of law enforcement to allow 4chan to continue to exist so they can keep their finger on the pulse of this sort of thing.

 

[numble]

It says gizmodo is 388...

Gawker is basically Gawker and its affiliates. Do people here honestly not know that Gawker.com is one of the biggest, most visited sites on the goddamn internet?

To everybody else, how many people know about QQ, NetEase (网&#26131, Taobao, or Sina, which are more visited than things like Paypal, Craigslist or ESPN (and definitely more visited than Gawker.com)?

To rage about people not knowing about a US-focused gossip site is something really silly to work up a fuss about.

 

[polyh3dron]

If you don't actually use your Gawker account, you can just get rid of your email from there and change your username and password to complete random bullshit.

Yeah but the data dump they took was from before it got changed.

 

[Hylian7]

Yeah but the data dump they took was from before it got changed.

I know, but since they don't let you delete your account and you want to take preventive measures in case this happens again, that's a good way to do so.

 

[cuevas. PhD.]

To everybody else, how many people know about QQ, NetEase (网&#26131, Taobao, or Sina, which are more visited than things like Paypal, Craigslist or ESPN (and definitely more visited than Gawker.com)?

To rage about people not knowing about a US-focused gossip site is something really silly to work up a fuss about.

It says GAWKER on every page and each site links to the other sites but okay...

 

[Sew]

It says GAWKER on every page and each site links to the other sites but okay...

I'm well familiar with giz, kotaku, lifehacker etc, but the only reason I know the name "gawker" is that I've seen so many people hotlink their images on forums (cache.gawkerassets or whatever).

Not everyone notices the same stuff ;-)

 

[Jintor]

I've logged in via affiliated Facebook logins, what's that do? :T

 

[Meier]

Well, I checked all my primary email addresses and it doesn't look like I have a gawker account. Didn't think so.. but thank god.

Another big site of theirs is Jezebel btw.

 

[neoanarch]

Is it a bad thing that i can't remember if I have an account on gawker. They have like a dozen blogspam sites. Fuck.

 

[Lonely1]

omg those passwords :lol :lol

Some of there were asking to be hacked.

Hey I am itxaka and my password is itxaka1, isn't that clever?? Amirite?

Edit: Holy fuck at that list of people using "password" as password :lol :lol :lol

Well, I used dumb password for sites that I don't give a dam about. Is that a security risk for my main sites? Like 'I feel like replying to this guy, I'm gonna make an account with an account name/password MarcusFenixisgod and never use the account again'.

 

[Mecha_Infantry]

I'm not computer-savvy...but, really?!

I'm sure that's wrong. You need to enter your whole password and only the first 8 bits are encrypted, the rest is sent in clear text

 

[itxaka]

Well, I used dumb password for sites that I don't give a dam about. Is that a security risk for my main sites? Like 'I feel like replying to this guy, I'm gonna make an account with an account name/password MarcusFenixisgod and never use the account again'.

Of course not. I use dumb password + exclusive spam email for sites that normally requires an account to see something or download a mod for example.

The problem is that probably a good percentage of this people used the same for their other accounts. I mean, have you seen the accounts of the gawker people?

 

[FStop7]

Protip: Do not flick a rabid tiger's balls and expect to survive.

 

[nib95]

Follow these steps:

1. http://pajhome.org.uk/crypt/md5/
2. Enter your email address under "Input", and click on "MD5". Copy the "Result".
3. http://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?dsrcid=350662
4. Click on "Show Options" and change the filter to "MD5". Paste the copied "Result" and see if it shows up on search. If it does then your password has been compromised and sooner or later will be hacked if they feel like it.

Thank god mine hasn't. Tbh, I'm not even sure I have a Gawker account, may have created one years ago not sure.

In any case, taking down the site etc is one thing, releasing personal info on users is a bit much. I don't usually disagree with the actions of 4Chan hacks, their Scientology campaign, protecting Assange etc (Didn't know anything about this 11 year old thing). But this particular Gawker attack may have over stepped the mark a tad, though in fairness, at least people have the opportunity to change passwords etc.

Some of those passwords are quite literally awful.

 

[Wolf Akela]

Thank God, mine isn't there. Still, I change the passwords of my important accounts just in case.

 

[Suitcase Test]

Fucking Gawker... Somehow those guys always manage to impress me. With every screenshot the embarrassment gets worse.

 

[Kurtofan]

Never heard of it.

 

[Salazar]

Never heard of it.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/18/101018fa_fact_mcgrath

Good profile in the New Yorker.

“So that ‘4Chan’s Sad War to Silence Gawker’ was rather unwise,” Denton said, not unhappily, referring to the seventh-ranked post on the board, which was itself a follow-up to the second (“How the Internet Beat Up an 11-Year-Old Girl”) and the fifth (“11-Year-Old Viral Video Star Placed Under Police Protection After Death Threats”). Gawker, Denton’s flagship title, had described 4Chan.org, an anarchic Web forum frequented by teen-agers, as “the Internet’s scariest hive mind,” and detailed its role in terrorizing and exposing the name and address of a young girl who made a YouTube video. 4Chan’s partisans had retaliated, at first unsuccessfully and then, after Gawker taunted them, with sufficient force to bring Denton’s gang offline.

You might say that it marked a peculiar moment in the evolution of Gawker, which was once described to Denton at a dinner party as the place where losers talk about winners—a venue for punching upward, with hive-mind tendencies of its own. Now the site that had once been the class cutup (“Lady Gaga’s Vagina Almost Fooled Us Into Forgetting About Her Penis”) was acting the part of digital hall monitor.

Denton acknowledged “the irony of us lecturing,” as he put it, and asked, “Is there Gawker ethics? I mean, I guess there’s Gawker ethics. It’s a dangerous thing to talk about.”
“Picking on 4Chan was genius,” Foster Kamer, a former Gawker writer who now works for the Village Voice, told me. “But you’re scooping the muck from the sewer and holding it up in your hand and saying, ‘Look at this. Smell this.’ ”

 

[Castor Krieg]

I love this part of their FAQ:

5) How can I delete my account?
We understand how important trust is on the web, and some of you may wish to delete your Gawker Media account. Currently account deletion is not available. We will, however, give you this option as soon as possible.

Yup, yup, after all databases fetch nice cash with advertisers.

Anyway, changed my password to "f***youkotaku".

 

[Axion22]

Follow these steps:

1. http://pajhome.org.uk/crypt/md5/
2. Enter your email address under "Input", and click on "MD5". Copy the "Result".
3. http://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?dsrcid=350662
4. Click on "Show Options" and change the filter to "MD5". Paste the copied "Result" and see if it shows up on search. If it does then your password has been compromised and sooner or later will be hacked if they feel like it.

Great, I'm listed...

I've got different passwords everywhere, tho.

 

[Suitcase Test]

Am I alone in thinking that the Lifehacker guys never seemed like they belonged with the rest of the Gawker? Somehow they didn't come across as douchebags to me.

But then Gina Trapani left, and even before then they were crazy about getting hits.

 

[jercruz]

great i can see mine, but thankfully i use different passwords for each site.

sad, that you can't delete your account though.

 

[Songbird]

So I found my account in the full database with encrypted pass. I just can't decrypt it or even remember what I possibly used, all the things it could be failed and I have no password change email. Feh.

 

[giga]

Am I alone in thinking that the Lifehacker guys never seemed like they belonged with the rest of the Gawker? Somehow they didn't come across as douchebags to me.

But then Gina Trapani left, and even before then they were crazy about getting hits.

No you’re not alone and I credit it to their excellent leadership. Trapani was great and Adam Pash continues to be class.

 

[SouthernDragon]

You can't delete your account? Really?

ha ha ha oh wow

I don't have an account with them, but still...

 

[erlim]

this sucks. i had an account, posted once because io9 wrote a post about a shortfilm I made and I commented. This was two years ago. I had to spend the whole night changing all my passwords on various sites. I can't even remember all of them, and there's a lot of work to do still. to make it worse, the gawker guy seems like a major league douche. and add to that the insult to injury of not being able to delete my account.

 

[big ander]

Oh, it'll get bad soon.

Or did it already?

eh nevermind

 

[polyh3dron]

Oh, it'll get bad soon.

Or did it already?

jokerherewego.gif

 

[itxaka]

So I found my account in the full database with encrypted pass. I just can't decrypt it or even remember what I possibly used, all the things it could be failed and I have no password change email. Feh.

You can always use mdcrack to crack the password (if you are lucky)

 

[Suitcase Test]

this sucks. i had an account, posted once because io9 wrote a post about a shortfilm I made and I commented. This was two years ago. I had to spend the whole night changing all my passwords on various sites.

Did you change them to different passwords this time? Because if you used the same one on all of those sites, they were due for a change anyway. Looking at it like that, this may have been a (small) blessing in disguise.

 

[Shalashaska]

Did you change them to different passwords this time? Because if you used the same one on all of those sites, they were due for a change anyway. Looking at it like that, this may have been a (small) blessing in disguise.

My e-mail wasn't on there but I've used that same username/pw combo for a lot of websites. Been changing them for the last 2 hours and I've still got a long way to go... I'm amazed at how much crap I've signed up for over the years. This prompted me to change all my important passwords again though and now I've got a bunch of random passwords for all the sites I use. Better make sure I don't lose the paper I've wrote them down on or I'm screwed :lol

 

[numble]

My e-mail wasn't on there but I've used that same username/pw combo for a lot of websites. Been changing them for the last 2 hours and I've still got a long way to go... I'm amazed at how much crap I've signed up for over the years. This prompted me to change all my important passwords again though and now I've got a bunch of random passwords for all the sites I use. Better make sure I don't lose the paper I've wrote them down on or I'm screwed :lol

1Password
http://agilewebsolutions.com/onepassword

 

[Borman]

I think the password used was random letters, but I cant remember :\ Shitty situation.

 

[Castor Krieg]

My e-mail wasn't on there but I've used that same username/pw combo for a lot of websites. Been changing them for the last 2 hours and I've still got a long way to go... I'm amazed at how much crap I've signed up for over the years. This prompted me to change all my important passwords again though and now I've got a bunch of random passwords for all the sites I use. Better make sure I don't lose the paper I've wrote them down on or I'm screwed :lol

Whatever, I went only through my e-mails, banks, eBay, etc. Don't care someone getting my forums account (except NeoGAF, this one got changed).

1Password
http://agilewebsolutions.com/onepassword

Does that allows you to create a password list, which is by itself protected by a password?

 

[Shalashaska]

Whatever, I went only through my e-mails, banks, eBay, etc. Don't care someone getting my forums account (except NeoGAF, this one got changed).

I'm basically just covering whatever I can find googling the username that I had on Kotaku. There's 1,300,000 accounts and mine didn't have an e-mail, anything happening is probably unlikely and yeah like you, I've changed everything important. Which frankly, I should probably be doing on a regular basis and probably will actually.

 

[Fjolle]

Urgh. I've spent the morning trying to remember which sites i've used my dumb password on, and which ones I actually use..

 

[panda21]

how did they taunt them?

 

[Ellis Kim]

Hrmmm. This is making me paranoid. I hate that the only way to know is by checking the documents yourself I might have had an old account on there, but I don't know if the password was a "reset" one I never fixed or not :S

 

[verbum]

They were being called out on. It would have been bitches if they didn't do anything. If someone calls you out on something, you gotta hit them back in some way otherwise you're gonna look like a bitch.

This kind of attitude is so 12 year old. What has Anon proved?
I was feeling kind of good about them for maybe supporting Wikileaks (not sure if they really were supporting WL) but this attack is so childish. Life Hackers was a decent site. I never signed up for an account but I enjoyed reading some of the articles.

 

[spidye]

I have a question. my mail adress got leaked but my password is not the same that I use here. in fact it's not even the same password I use for the email adress. I use that password on other things though. am I really screwed?

 

[ShinNL]

I have a question. my mail adress got leaked but my password is not the same that I use here. in fact it's not even the same password I use for the email adress. I use that password on other things though. am I really screwed?

Unless you want any regular Joe to hack you on whatever sites you visit: yes you're screwed if you don't change your password on every single site you visit. I recommend using several "levels" of security passwords. Sites you almost never visit and has no important information should have simpler passwords and more important networks (like social sites) have better passwords. E-mail should always be the strongest of them all. The best way is making an unique password for all sites though (using variations of the level of security).

 

[Stumpokapow]

So I found my account in the full database with encrypted pass. I just can't decrypt it or even remember what I possibly used, all the things it could be failed and I have no password change email. Feh.

What's important isn't your Kotaku username / password, it's that a) you don't use the same username / password elsewhere and that b) you change your passwords elsewhere anyway.

I'll bite. How do they pull off DDoS attacks en masse? I don't know, but I would wager that most of them using a program written by someone else without understanding how and why it works. From what I've seen in the media, nothing they've done is impressive from a technical standpoint, which isn't to say that they haven't done serious damage.

Average Joe can be a "script kiddie" and break into wi-fi spots or participate in DDoS attacks without knowing a whole lot.

Sorry, are we in a DDoS thread?

 

[JaseC]

Seems I'm safe.

My gmail-registered account has the password I use for sites I don't give two shits about, and my ISP-registered account password hasn't been leaked, plus there's no way in hell I'd use the same password for Gawker that I'd tie to shit like eBay, Amazon, etc. I actually keep a list of the important sites my e-mails are tied to (includes GAF) and make sure to update these passwords every so often, always making them rather strong.

I really don't give a shit if they use either account on Gawker. Haven't visited even one of their blogs in years.

 

[RJT]

I love Lifehacker, but I'm pretty sure I never opened an account there. My password for websites that don't have private information about me is pretty terrible, though (including GAF's).

I'm changing it though. You only have one GAF life, don't want to get banned over account hijacking. What would I do without GAF?

 

[spidye]

Unless you want any regular Joe to hack you on whatever sites you visit: yes you're screwed if you don't change your password on every single site you visit. I recommend using several "levels" of security passwords. Sites you almost never visit and has no important information should have simpler passwords and more important networks (like social sites) have better passwords. E-mail should always be the strongest of them all. The best way is making an unique password for all sites though (using variations of the level of security).

thanks for the quick response.
off to work, it seems

 

[Borman]

Im in the database, but dont seem to have my password leaked. Hoping that it stays that way, but based on the fact that I used password reset to access that account last, Im thinking I should be good as it should be something random. Hopefully.