Formspring Hacked, All Users Asked to Reset their Passwords
Formspring has disabled 30 million registered users' passwords after a username/password leak was triggered on Tuesday. A hacker breached the company's servers in San Francisco and procured an unknown number of username/password combinations, but hundreds of thousands were leaked to the web to prove that the hack did occur. Formspring has responded swiftly to reset passwords and the leaked passwords were all encrypted which makes it a lot more difficult to access than just a simple text post.
Formspring has disabled 30 million registered users’ passwords after a leak was triggered on Tuesday. A hacker breached the company’s servers in San Francisco and procured an unknown total number of password combinations, but hundreds of thousands were leaked to the web to prove that the hack did occur. Formspring has responded swiftly to reset passwords and the leaked passwords were all encrypted which makes it a lot more difficult to access than just a simple text post.
A spokeswoman from Formspring has said that 420,000 encrypted passwords were posted to a security forum.
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