Gawker Media Hacked - 1.3 Million user accounts compromised

[BlackLantern]

http://www.observer.com/2010/daily-...cked-new-hacker-group-gnosis-its-not-over-yet

The user information—passwords, emails and user names—for 1.3 million Gawker Media site commenters. A remarkable number of the passwords were set aside in a text file all their own owing to their simplicity and ridiculous insecurity; apparently a lot of Gawker commenters have been fond of using "password" or worse, "QWERTY" to secure their accounts. Also found in the user data: numerous password and email combos in which the email addresses ended in .mil or .gov—a potential route to serious cyber sabotage at the government level if there ever was one.

A good deal of Gawker Media owner Nick Denton's information, including logins, URLs and a password the hackers state Denton "likes to use... everywhere." Notes included with the information uploaded to The Pirate Bay (a known safe haven for files used hackers worldwide) gave Denton's complete login information to his Gawker email account, Twitter, and Campfire, a real-time chat program used by Gawker staff to collaborate and chat about works in progress.

What appears to be the login information for several Gawker staff and editors present and past, including former staffers Alex Pareene and Choire Sicha.

Login information for file transfer sites as well as the Gawker login data for paywall-locked articles in the Wall Street Journal, gleaned from Campfire chat logs.