Change that Kickstarter password -- crowdfunding website gets hit by hackers

February 16, 2014

Kickstarter backers received an unwanted reward Saturday if they have an account with the crowdfunding site—a security notice that hackers have gained access to some customer data. Kickstarter stressed both in a blog post on the incident and in the email that went out to project organizers and backers that hackers hadn’t accessed any credit card data. The crowdfunding site also hasn’t found any evidence of unauthorized activities on accounts. What hackers were able to get their hands on, according to Kickstarter, included user names, email addresses, mailing addresses, and encrypted passwords. While actual passwords weren’t revealed in the security breach, it’s still probably a good idea to stop reading this article right now and go change your Kickstarter password. Kickstarter suggests you also change the password of any other accounts that share your Kickstarter password, if you engage in that particularly unsound security practice.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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