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DSLReports says member information stolen

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Dissent

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.

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