Sports blog jocks to crypto-cash nerds – here's who got pwned Two more websites say they have had user accounts sniffed by hackers. Sports blog network Bleacher Report says that someone may have accessed a database containing user email addresses and passwords, while blockchain development site Ethereum says that a hacker managed to get hold of a database backup that contained the …
Ethereum said the hacker, who was also connected to an attack on investor Bo Shen, used social engineering to get access to a forum backup made in April of this year.
If you are even putting backups of user DBs in a place where a support tech or any other person has access to them and the ability to put them on a forum, your management should be fired. That is inexcusable.
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