Popular online document sharing website Scribd announced that hackers attempted to gain access to email address and passwords of its users. The good news is that number of users affected by the attack in only 1% or registered users.
Company has also sent emails to all users affected by the attack with process of changing their account password. If you did not receive any email from Scribd, We will advice you to check whether your account was affected or not here:
http://www.scribd.com/password/check
“Earlier this week, Scribd’s Operations team discovered and blocked suspicious activity on Scribd’s network that appears to have been a deliberate attempt to access the email addresses and passwords of registered Scribd users,” Scribd noted in security announcement.
“Our investigation indicates that no content, payment and sales-related data, or other information were accessed or compromised. We believe the information accessed was limited to general user information, which includes usernames, emails, and encrypted passwords,” It added.
Company claims that passwords were encrypted with a strong security mechanism. But users should change the password to be in safer side.
Read: Top 25 worst password you should avoid
“Finally, we would like to sincerely apologize for our failure to live up to our users’ expectations in this instance. We’re incredibly disappointed that this happened and are committed to doing everything we can to prevent this from happening again. We will work harder than ever to ensure that we deserve the trust that our users place in us,” Company requests to all users.
In past few months, number of high profile websites and servers have been hacked. Facebook, Microsoft, Apple are also in the list of those companies who faced cyber attack.
So, we suggest users to use strong password for their account. A strong password is hard to crack by bruteforcing attack.
