Patreon has been hacked. - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Dagon
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 01, 2015, 08:03:29 am
content: Anyone here using it might want to reset their passwords and anywhere else you use the same password.https://www.patreon.com/posts/3457485

author: bitwelder
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 01, 2015, 05:12:52 pm
content: It seems that there *might* be a 3.7 GB dump of data (probably still an encrypted blob) that going to be posted soon somewhere.

author: momo
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: October 02, 2015, 12:37:39 pm
content: There is a dumphttps://patreon.thecthulhu.com/w/ magnet linksTake a look and stay safe

author: Marco
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 02, 2015, 01:21:31 pm
content: I don't understand how in this day and age password databases still get out of large companies without physical break in, they are doing it wrong.

author: Maxlor
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 02, 2015, 05:28:32 pm
content: Quote from: Marco on October 02, 2015, 01:21:31 pmYes they are. But what's hard to understand? Where there's humans, you'll find mistakes...

author: Marco
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 04, 2015, 04:00:00 pm
content: The mistake is lettin the IT industry get away with laziness. Which has begotten us things like password databases open on the intranet, BYOD and the continued use of C(++) for way more internet facing code than is justified.Doing the right thing is too cumbersome, supposedly. Even with the immense damage caused.Why wasn't the credit card data leaked? My guess, the credit card companies have fines for not following best practices.

author: Mechanical Menace
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 04, 2015, 04:36:18 pm
content: Quote from: Marco on October 04, 2015, 04:00:00 pmI fail to see how devs using their own machines or using a particular language over any others are the causes of any of these problems. Especially the choice of language. How would using something other than C or C++ stop mistakes in code? I can't think of anything that can be done wrong in C that can't be done just as badly in any other comparably powerful language.

author: miguelvp
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 04, 2015, 04:46:02 pm
content: Quote from: Mechanical Menace on October 04, 2015, 04:36:18 pmOh noes! you both had to open that door.Now this thread is going to spiral out of control

author: Marco
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 04, 2015, 05:34:30 pm
content: Quote from: Mechanical Menace on October 04, 2015, 04:36:18 pmBy nearly eliminating multiple classes of bugs which have historically be proven to be especially useful for remote exploits (resulting from the way memory management and pointers/arrays are handled). After large enough cost most of the industry overcame it's resistance towards enforcing the use of alternative string functions and functions to form SQL statements which filters out escape characters (of course you shouldn't write those functions in languages with dynamic typing, which have their own problematic classes of bugs).We're still a few trillion short of convincing the industry of the need to mostly eliminate the use of C(++).ps. in my opinionand Microsoft'syou can't rely on your programmers to mitigate these kinds of issues on their own, it has to be forced on them.

author: bitwelder
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 04, 2015, 09:09:52 pm
content: Quote from: miguelvp on October 04, 2015, 04:46:02 pmOh yeah! Enjoy the show.Popcorns?