Kickstarter Hacked - Recommends Password Change

Submitted by I Bleed Maize N Blue on

Per anthem_1 (go give him an upvote):

Kickstarter hacked, user data stolen

The crowd-funding site says hackers broke into its systems and made off with data. Apparently credit card numbers escaped the attack.

Important Kickstarter Security Notice

https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/important-kickstarter-security-notice

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No credit card data of any kind was accessed by hackers. There is no evidence of unauthorized activity of any kind on all but two Kickstarter user accounts.

As a precaution, we strongly recommend that you create a new password for your Kickstarter account, and other accounts where you use this password.

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LSAClassOf2000

February 15th, 2014 at 8:20 PM ^

Considering that a large number of regular users give every spring to make HTTV possible (as well as to other cuases), this is a very good thing to know. Thanks to both you and the poster in the hockey open thread for bringing this to everyone's attention. I did indeed just change my information. 

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anthem_1

February 15th, 2014 at 9:11 PM ^

 

thank you for the assist I Bleed Maize and Blue.  figured this might be important to a number of regulars around here.

Kickstarter is a website that MGoBlog used to crowd-source donations to fund the annual HTTV preview magazine for football, basketball and hockey. 

it's a pretty popular site where creative types go to appeal to people to fund their ideas for magazines, games, music, art - etc.

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will

February 15th, 2014 at 9:18 PM ^

There have been a few other kickstarts lately..  I know there was one on a documentary by one of the  players, and I forget whether Vincent Smith used it for the Pahokee greenhouse project. I think I participated in another one, but can't remember for the life of me what it was..

 

I was just about to post this, glad someone else beat me to it.

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