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Flipboard Databases Hacked and User Information Exposed

News aggregation site Flipboard has disclosed that their databases had been hacked and unauthorized users have potentially downloaded the personal account information and digital tokens for some of their over 100 million users. This data included the user names, hashed and salted passwords, and for some users, their email addresses and. digital tokens used to login to Flipboard using site credentials from Google, Facebook, and Twitter. Flipboard states that the vast majority of the exposed user passwords were hashed with a strong cipher called bcrypt. This would make it difficult, but not impossible, to crack the passwords.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/flipboard-databases-hacked-and-user-information-exposed/

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