Dailymotion Hack Exposes Millions of Accounts (zdnet.com) 23
Millions of accounts associated with video sharing site Dailymotion, one of the biggest video platforms in the world, have been stolen. From a ZDNet report: A hacker extracted 85.2 million unique email addresses and usernames from the company's systems, but about one-in-five accounts -- roughly 18.3 million-- had associated passwords, which were scrambled with the bcrypt hashing function, making the passwords difficult to crack. The hack is believed to have been carried out on October 20 by a hacker, whose identity isn't known, according to LeakedSource, a breach notification service, which obtained the data. Dailymotion launched in 2005, and is currently the 113rd most visited website in the world, according to Alexa rankings.
I must be out of touch (Score:2)
and is currently the 113rd most visited website in the world, according to Alexa rankings.
...never heard of it.
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Ah, that explains it. Flash-free here for years now.
Re: I must be out of touch (Score:1)
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I have heard of it. It is just not popular as YouTube, Vimeo, etc.
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Seems to be popular among the folks who used to use YouTube to stream TV shows. I think that YouTube is much more aggressive in taking down copyrighted content.
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What do you plan to do when more sites start requiring an account just to watch, as Nico does?
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That's easy for sites to work around by adding a date of birth field to the sign-up forum. From BugMeNot TOS [bugmenot.com]: "You will not submit sites that have any form of age access verification (COPPA)."
From the 'whooops' department (Score:2)
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113rd? (Score:2)
One hundred and thir-turd?
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