Ars Technica readers urged to change passwords in wake of hack
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Posted on 18 December 2014.In case you haven't heard already, Ars Technica got hacked over the weekend, so if you are a subscribed reader now would be a good time to change your password.
"At 20:00 CT on December 14, an Internet intruder gained access to one of the Ars Web servers and spent the next hour attempting to get from the Web server to a more central machine," the staff explained in a short note on Tuesday. "At 20:52, the attempt was successful thanks to information gleaned from a poorly located backup file. The next day, at 14:13, the hacker returned to the central server and replaced the main Ars webpage with a defacement page that streamed a song from the band Dual Core." full article
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