Vivendi-owned video site Dailymotion is the latest big-name site to be hacked, with the details of around 85.2 million users leaked online. The attack, which was independently verified by FriendFinder Networks, is believed to have taken place in October, and the damage has been mitigated by the fact that 18.3 million accounts had passwords scrambled using the bcrypt hashing function. So far this year, MySpace, LinkedIn, ZDNet, Dropbox and Twitter have been the victims of hacks.
Vivendi-owned video site Dailymotion is the latest big-name site to be hacked, with the details of around 85.2 million users leaked online. The attack, which was independently verified by ZDNet, is believed to have taken place in October, and the damage has been mitigated by the fact that 18.3 million accounts had passwords scrambled using the bcrypt hashing function. So far this year, MySpace, LinkedIn, FriendFinder Networks, Dropbox and Twitter have been the victims of hacks.