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Potential iContact security breach.
Submitted by matt on Sun, 01/31/2010 - 9:53pm.
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As you may know, I use iContact.com for sending out my weekly door64 newsletter. It looks like iContact had a security breach recently, though they have not confirmed it to date. Initially there was some Internet chatter about this last week, and subsequently iContact mentioned an investigation in their blog. I will relay what iContact reports when I find out.
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These things seem all too common these days. Hopefully you've done some house cleaning and changed your passwords. Typically when these breaches occur there is a follow up attack trying to infiltrate alternate e-mail accounts using the same credentials they've stolen.
I suffered a similar fate some time ago (Monster.com breach likely exposed my info). Nothing ever came of it but once they get your info you never know how they are going to use it. Better to be safe than sorry (also best not to use a common password or username across different services, change it up some make it complex :)
By the way I am new here!
~ Sam
I know. Well, this wasn't a password issue. Looks like someone broke into iContact and stole email addresses. As bad as that is, at least there isn't an issue with door64 profile data being compromised.
P.S. Welcome aboard, and glad to meet you!