Flipboard acknowledges having been the victim of a hack

Flipboard is an application that surely sounds to many, aimed at discovering news and content. The application has now been forced to acknowledge that they have been the victims of a hack. Due to the same, unauthorized people have had access to the company's internal systems. What's surprising in this case is that this is something that has spanned nine months.

Flipboard acknowledges having been the victim of a hack

In this way, user data has been obtained. The data obtained is user names and encrypted passwords. In some cases, the app also accesses third-party services.

Mass hacking

The good news is that most passwords were encrypted using bcrypt, which is considered a very difficult system to crack. Although other accesses were protected with algorithms that were too weak. Although from Flipboard they confirm that all those who have changed the password after 2012 are protected. The company does not know at the moment the number of accounts that have been affected.

They have confirmed that they are resetting the passwords of the users of the service. All of them, regardless of whether or not they have been affected by the hack. They have also disconnected all third party service accounts as a precaution.

Flipboard also confirms that they have taken additional security measures, so that this does not happen again. No mention has been made of what kind of measures have been taken in this regard. So we hope they are sufficient in this case.

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