1.3 million user accounts exposed, 405 megabytes of source code lost. For Gawker, there is a loss of trust that will be difficult to regain. All Gawker s systems will need to painstakingly audited or rebuilt entirely from scratch to prevent the same thing from happening again. Never claim to be unhackable The hackers outnumber you by several orders of magnitude, and they have more free time. Never use the same passwords across online accounts. Seek out a local desktop password manager.
Source: https://threatpost.com/lessons-learned-gawker-hack-121510/74777/