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News aggregator Flipboard disclosed a data breach

The news and social media aggregator Flipboard announced that it suffered a breach, unauthorized users had access to some databases storing user account information. Stolen records include names, usernames, password hashes, email addresses, and for some users digital tokens used to access Flipboard through third-party services. At the time it is not clear the extent of the breach, anyway, the company forced a password reset for all its users. Most of the passwords were hashed with bcrypt, while the passworts for users that have not logged into their account since March 14, 2012, were protected with SHA-1 hashing algorithm.”]

Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/86266/data-breach/flipboard-data-breach.html

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