Thursday, October 2, 2014

WordPress resets 100,000 accounts as a precaution over recent Gmail password leaks





There were news reported that up to 5 million Gmail user names and passwords were published to a Russian Bitcoin forum but Google said that it doesn't think that it was the result of a security problem at its end. Automattic, which operates hosted blogging service WordPress.com, has said it has taken precautionary measures to secure thousands of its own accounts.

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The company said the Gmail security breach is not connected to WordPress and it has already reset 100,000 accounts that use the same password as the associated Gmail addresses as a pre-emptive measures.






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