News aggregator Flipboard has revealed it was hacked & had put in measures to protect its system.
It sent out a tweet on the matter.
Flipboard hacked was 1st revealed by ZDNet, the report said in the security incident, hackers had access to internal systems for over 9 months.
In a series of emails seen by ZDNet that the company sent out to impacted users, Flipboard said hackers gained access to databases the company was using to store customer information.
The news aggregator said these databases stored information such as Flipboard usernames, hashed and uniquely salted passwords, & in some cases, emails or digital tokens that linked Flipboard profiles to accounts on 3rd-party services.
According to the ZDNet report, on the positive side, a vast majority of passwords were hashed with a strong password-hashing algorithm named bcrypt, currently considered very hard to crack. The company said that some passwords were hashed with the weaker SHA-1 algorithm, but they were not many.
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