You may have read or heard in the news that the popular internet celebrity gossip site GAWKER.com and its sister sites (Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Gawker, Jezebel, io9, Jalopnik, Kotaku, Deadspin, and Fleshbot) has been attacked by hackers. (article at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11981816)
Hackers were able to steal information on more than 1.2 million account holders, including user names, email addresses and passwords. Hacks have now been reported in web accounts from Twitter to LinkedIn using these details, with the hackers working on the basis that many people simply do not change these details no matter how many accounts they set on the web or elsewhere.
