What Exactly Happened During This Weekend's Tumblr Password Leak?
The popular microblogging platform Tumblr was hit by a security breach on Saturday, potentially revealing users' personal information as well as passwords, server IP addresses and API keys.
The popular microblogging platform Tumblr was hit by a security breach on Saturday, potentially revealing users’ personal information as well as passwords, server IP addresses and API keys.
The breach was first revealed by a Saturday morning Tweet from coder @J2Labs that warned, “OMG… The Tumbeasts are spitting out passwords!”
That tweet quickly spread and the debate moved to Hacker News where members tried to figure out how more than 748 lines of sensitive configuration information on the site became open and accessible to the public.
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