Attackers have access to data from users of the Washington Post

Yes, after leaving the virtual battlefield of the hacker grouping LulzSec, hacker attacks on the servers of gaming companies do not seem to be renewed. But at the very end of last month, fans of digging on foreign servers turned their attention to the site of the famous publication The Washington Post. This was announced recently, the newspaper did not advertise the fact of hacking. True, hackers “worked” not with the site of the publication itself, but with its section dedicated to finding work.

Here, as usual, employers left vacancies, those who are looking for work - a resume. The attackers successfully hacked the server, and the attack took place in two stages, June 27 and 28. As a result, about 1.27 million email addresses and usernames of the Jobs section were stolen. The Washington Post management reports that passwords or any other information was not stolen by the attackers. In addition, the publication reports that the relevant employees were able to quickly detect the fact of the attack and closed the “hole”. Information about exactly how the attackers were able to hack the server, were not disclosed by the company.
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It is expected that users whose email addresses have been stolen will receive spam messages where phishing tricks are not excluded. It may be that hackers will write on behalf of the Washington Post, and ask to confirm the information, indicating their passwords or some other data. And of course, the victims will also be found, because there is always a gullible user, without a twinge of conscience leaving the data of his credit card on, let's say, the site that is not credible.

The management of the publication believes that due to the rapid actions of network security specialists no other data was stolen. It could be much worse. Additional measures have already been taken to prevent other hacking attempts, and the Washington Post team hopes that the measures taken will really help.

Via eweek