Ameba Blog Hacked, Celebrity Blogs Compromised

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Mainichi News reports that Ameba blog had been hacked, celebrity blogs’ passwords stolen. Officals are currently checking on this matter. That is about 450 celebrity blogs’ security compromised, sources indicate.

Problem was found at around 1 a.m. on Friday, when a staff from Cyber Agent Inc., the host’s owner, noticed an unauthorized image posted on the blogs of singer Miki Fujimoto and pro wrestler Jaguar Yokota. The image is a link to that reveals a list of around 450 user IDs, passwords and some email addresses for celebrity blogs.

It is not known how the list manage to leak out as it was made known by administrators.

So, folks working in the IT line, how do you secure administrator related files and work documents ? Do you guys encrypt and hash it ?



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