nu.nl wrote:De wachtwoorden zijn versleuteld volgens het MD5-algoritme, dat in de regel al jaren geldt als een zeer kwetsbare manier om wachtwoorden op te slaan.
Which roughly translates to:
The passwords are encrypted using the MD5-Algorithm, which has shown in the past to be a vulnerable way to store passwords
Achilles wrote:The BMG staff is just coming back from Christmas/New years vacation and we were informed that there may have been a breach of our database. I am currently in contact with Rackspace to figure out what happened and prevent it from happening again. You should update your Town of Salem passwords to be safe.
I surely agree you all should be free during the Christmas and New Years period, however why is there NOONE on call for security breaches? Sure nobody has to be in the office but there should atleast be someone available to be reached when a security breach like this happening and to fix it ASAP. BMG gave the hackers a couple of days to look around the database and steal close to 8m users their information.
Also, why is this not mailed to every registered user in the DB?! I had to find out thanks to the News site nu.nl that there was a breach, and yet no mail has been send from BMG! Shame!