Online news aggregation service NewsNow has admitted that it has suffered a security breach.
It’s a shame that they didn’t include more technical details on how the passwords are stored, even if only for those readers who might understand them.
What is clear is that you should ensure that you are not using the password you were using on NewsNow anywhere else on the web.
Furthermore, NewsNow appears to be so burnt by the experience that it has decided it never wants to store passwords (hashed or otherwise) again.
In an age of “toxic data”, the site has declared that it has revamped its login system. In future users will simply enter their email address into a form, and will then need to wait for a message to be sent to their email address containing a link that will log them into the NewsNow system.
So, puhleaze: choose your passwords carefully, no simple ones, complexity is the key, and no reuse of passwords either!
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