Elinor Mills reports:
Subscribers to ISP news and review site DSLReports.com have been notified that their e-mail addresses and passwords may have been exposed during an attack on the Web site earlier this week.
The site was targeted in an SQL injection attack yesterday and about 8 percent of the subscribers’ e-mail addresses and passwords were stolen, Justin Beech, founder of DSLReports.com, wrote in an e-mail to members. That would be about 8,000 random accounts of the 9,000 active and 90,000 old or inactive accounts created during the site’s 10-year history, Beech said in an e-mail to CNET today.
Read more on cnet.
Thanks to “LadyCalyope” for sending in this link. And thanks to the many readers who drop me notes or send me links and leads. It really is much appreciated when you’re a one-person blog trying to keep up with so many breaches!