Slack restores the passwords of 1% of all its users
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Slack has announced that the passwords of 1% of all its users are reset. The reason for this is a hack that the well-known application suffered four years ago and that has kept users of the platform affected all this time. So they have made the decision to reset these keys. So prevent problems from escalating.
Slack restores the passwords of 1% of all its users
It was in his rewards program that this bug was reported. The company investigated it and found that it was real. So they have worked to give you a solution already.
Problem solved
Due to this bug in Slack, some users' data was compromised, or at least potentially compromised. The company made the decision to perform this password reset. It is a problem that affects those who created their account before March 2015 and have never changed their password. Also to those accounts that do not require login through a single sign-on provider.
The problem appears to have been less severe than expected. Since this resetting of user passwords has been solved. The company has not detected any other flaws in its structure, as has been known.
So if you are one of the users who meets these requirements, Slack has reset your password, for protection. Surely the company has contacted these users. So you already know the steps you have to take in this regard.
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