Gawker Media has admitted passwords were stolen in a hack on its user databases. Whilst the stored passwords were encrypted, Gawker said, simple ones may still be vulnerable to a brute force attack, where constant attempts to crack the key are made until the hackers are successful.
Users have been advised to change their passwords for Gawker websites and for any other site on which they use that same password.

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