
Social Site Formspring Says 420k User Password Hashes Posted Online
Hackers broke into a development server at Formspring, a social Q&A site, and made off with the password hashes for 420,000 users and later posted them online. The company has reset all of the users’ passwords and said it also has changed the way that it handles passwords.Formspring officials said on Tuesday that they had discovered the incident that morning and later discovered that some of the hashes had been posted online. The company decided to reset the passwords for all of its users.