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February 16, 2014, 04:10:21 AM
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"CNN) -- Kickstarter, a popular crowd-funding site, urged users to change their passwords Saturday after announcing that it had been hacked.

Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler said in a blog post that usernames, passwords, mailing addresses, e-mail addresses and phone numbers had been compromised by hackers, but no credit card information had been stolen.

"(W)e strongly recommend that you create a new password for your Kickstarter account, and other accounts where you use this password," Strickler said in the blog post. "We're incredibly sorry that this happened. We set a very high bar for how we serve our community, and this incident is frustrating and upsetting."

Hackers "gained unauthorized access to some of our customers' data," but "there is no evidence of unauthorized activity of any kind on all but two Kickstarter user accounts," a news release said.

Kickstarter did not immediately respond to a CNN e-mail inquiry asking how many accounts had potentially been compromised.

Law enforcement alerted Kickstarter to the hack Wednesday, according to the release. The site then "immediately closed the security breach," it said.

According to the website -- which allows people with products, projects and inventions to post their ideas and raise money for them by garnering donations from users -- 5.6 million people have pledged funding to 56,000 projects since its launch in 2009."

Fuckin' kiddie coders, anyway!

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February 16, 2014, 05:06:23 AM
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I've heard good things about this little piece of software: https://lastpass.com/

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February 16, 2014, 06:13:18 AM
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Hackers are busy this winter, Target, BTC, Kickstarter, etc.

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February 17, 2014, 02:22:02 AM
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I've heard good things about this little piece of software: https://lastpass.com/

Hackable, so that won't work.

My $.02.

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February 17, 2014, 02:46:07 AM
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Somewhat related - I wish Kickstarter would accept BTC :/
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February 17, 2014, 04:35:29 AM
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At least they didn't really get away with much. I'd be really surprised if they did. Millions pour in and out of that site a day. I'd imagine security to be taken very seriously at that level of funding.
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February 17, 2014, 05:20:07 PM
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I've heard good things about this little piece of software: https://lastpass.com/

Hackable, so that won't work.

My $.02.

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There is always a risk to be hacked when you connect to the internet.
Maybe you prefer some of the offline password managers?
Some info here:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2407168,00.asp
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February 17, 2014, 07:42:36 PM
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I've heard good things about this little piece of software: https://lastpass.com/

Hackable, so that won't work.

My $.02.

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There is always a risk to be hacked when you connect to the internet.
Maybe you prefer some of the offline password managers?
Some info here:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2407168,00.asp
I think keeping them written down on paper is even safer. Especially if you have a safe to put it into

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February 17, 2014, 09:11:42 PM
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Safer probably, as long as someone can't easily walk away with the safe. But it's less convenient and more time taking if have to type it every time.
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February 18, 2014, 04:19:46 PM
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Somewhat related - I wish Kickstarter would accept BTC :/

I think there's a couple of Bitcoin crowdfunding sites. Here's one: https://bitcoinstarter.com/


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February 18, 2014, 04:37:50 PM
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Investing in security? Too mainstream

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