NVIDIA forums hacked, accounts compromised

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Late last night NVIDIA announced its forums had been hacked following the company's suspension of the service last week. The news comes just a day after it was revealed more than 400,000 Yahoo! Voice accounts had been compromised.

http://www.neowin.net/news/nvidia-forums-hacked-accounts-compromised

 

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Nvidia Forums Closed Following Password-Stealing Hack Attack

Ruh-roh, 'Raggy: late yesterday, Nvidia announced that it has battened down the hatches and shut down both its general and developer forums after a series of hack attacks against the sites. So far, Nvidia's investigation confirms that "unauthorized third parties" gained access to the forum-goers' usernames, email addresses, passwords and public profile information.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/nvidia_forums_closed_following_password-stealing_hack_attack

 

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Another source

http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/07/14/1914221/nvidia-kills-online-store-in-response-to-hacker-claims

 

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Ditto.

http://news.techworld.com/security/...eveloper-forum-after-password-breach/?olo=rss