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Online accounting software Xero tells users to reset passwords, after accounts breached (UPDATED)

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Dissent

Update: Xero denied any breach.

Graham Cluley reports:

Cloud-based accounting service Xero has told its customers to reset their passwords after a “small number” of users had their accounts compromised.

At the time of writing there was no obvious advisory on Xero’s website, blog or Twitter account, but news of the security warning was sent out to customers in an email.

Read more on GrahamCluley.


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