Gawker.com says its user database was compromised

[bemildred]

NEW YORK (AP) — Gawker Media Inc. is urging subscribers to change their passwords because hackers have found their way into the company's user databases.

The company said in a posting on its website Sunday that the passwords were encrypted, but simple ones could be vulnerable to attacks by hackers' computers.

Gawker runs a series of blogs on the media, technology and other issues.

The company says it is embarrassed by the breach. It says passwords should be changed on other sites where the same password was used.

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1. Thanks bemildred.

I read Gawker regularly, but I've never registered there.

[stray cat]

2. Transparency!