{"id":448,"date":"2016-06-20T11:40:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T18:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/?p=448"},"modified":"2016-06-20T11:40:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T18:40:47","slug":"github-accounts-hacked-in-password-reuse-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/github-accounts-hacked-in-password-reuse-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Github accounts Hacked in &#8216;Password reuse attack&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Popular code repository site GitHub is warning that a number of users&#8217; accounts have been compromised by unknown hackers reusing email addresses and passwords obtained from other <a href=\"http:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2016\/06\/imesh-data-breach.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent data breaches<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Since the leaked credentials of recent widespread megabreach date back more than 3 years, there may have still been a possibility that those credentials were being re-used by many online users for other services.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>So, it&#8217;s high time you changed your passwords for all social media sites as well as other online services, especially if you use the same password for different websites.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2016\/06\/github-password-hack.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheHackersNews+%28The+Hackers+News+-+Security+Blog%29&amp;_m=3n.009a.1262.qm0ao08yu9.qd5\">read the entire article&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2016\/06\/github-password-hack.html\">Github accounts Hacked in &#8216;Password reuse attack&#8217;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular code repository site GitHub is warning that a number of users&#8217; accounts have been compromised by unknown hackers reusing email addresses and passwords obtained from other recent data breaches. [&#8230;] Since the leaked credentials of recent widespread megabreach date back more than 3 years, there may have still been a possibility that those credentials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}