2014 — Kickstarter: The crowd-funding site, Kickstarter, was…
Data compromised
Personal information
Technical writeup
The crowd-funding site, Kickstarter, was infiltrated by hackers who made off with user information including usernames, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone number and encrypted passwords.The company has said that no credit card information was taken.
Actual passwords were not revealed, however it is possible for a
malicious person with enough computing power to guess and crack an
encrypted password, particularly a weak or obvious one, the site said
in a blog post,
adding that as a prec
Root cause
Hacking