Yahoo and Twitter and LinkedIn Are Urge To Change The Password After A Leak In The United States

The attack on the Internet Publisher Gawker, a network of blogs and news sites such as Gizmodo, Lifehacker, maintains and Kotaku has advised or led to other members to change their password urgent. Gawker sites have been attacked and the attackers released data on more than one million members online. In the conviction that the same password over the Internet used to register access to various sites, like  Yahoo, Twitter and LinkedIn, what happened to discuss an unspecified number of its members have warned the password change. The same is the online game World of Warcraft, with over 12 million subscribers. Some of these companies are identifying data Gawker members publicly made to verify if they belong to its network and urge them to move, to change their password to prevent tampering.

The attack on Gawker, the Web sites warn of the data breach on the cover, there was this weekend. The authorship of the group Gnosis, which organized to attributed to the "arrogance" of the site of protest, due to some places on the group.

Gawker has produced a page of questions, which meets the concerns of its members. The publication of the data shows, according to the BBC, which already knows that the surfer is easily derived in a trivial passwords. Have been used most frequently in the website, "123456", "password", "qwerty" and "consumer", among others. The problem is that use 33% of Internet users use the same password to log into various sites.

This week, the hamburger company McDonald is a similar attack with data leaks although it is unclear whether it suffered between the two cyber-attacks.

This week, the network Twitter the target of an attack to spread spam (unsolicited commercial e-mail) that the data was used against Gawker. After learning the passwords of Internet users who were registered at both sites, with the same password, the attackers used the contact list of members of the Twitter account and start their campaign against spam. Earlier this year banned use Twitter posted a list of over 300 passwords, keys, because they are too often for a significant number of Internet users that they are made extremely vulnerable.