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Software as a service monitoring platform Datadog, used by the likes of Facebook, Salesforce, and Citrix, has been breached and therefore suggested strongly that customers reset their passwords. The company says attackers hit multiple servers Friday including production servers, and a database of user credentials. Other …

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  1. NotBob

    Wait

    A company got hacked and actually owned up to it without credentials dumped to the wild, and they were doing things properly (instead of storing plaintext) so most of the lifted credentials will be useless?

    Tell me this isn't a dream...

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    1. Mark 85
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      Re: Wait

      And on top of all this, there's no weasel words or PR BS.

      Shocked... shocked I tell you. What's the world coming to?

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  2. Terje

    Let me open the window and check if there are any lowflying pigs around... I can't believe anyone actually stores credentials in a proper way!!! let alone responds to a breach in what can only be described as a responsible manner!!!

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