LivingSocial gets hacked, 50 million users told to reset passwords

April 27, 2013

More than 50 million users of the daily deals site LivingSocial are being asked to reset their passwords after hackers attacked the company’s servers and potentially made off with personal data. The cyberattack “resulted in authorized access to some customer data on our servers,” including names, email addresses, dates of birth and encrypted passwords, LivingSocial CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy said in an email to employees and in a separate email being sent to customers. The database that stores customer credit card information was not affected, nor was the database that stores merchants’ financial and banking information, the Washington, D.C.-based company said. Although decoding users’ passwords “would be difficult,” the site says it is taking “every precaution” by expiring its users’ passwords and asking them to create a new one. Emails are being sent this afternoon to the more than 50 million users whose data may have been compromised, a LivingSocial spokesman said. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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