NVIDIA and Android Forums hacked, users advised to change passwords

[Jack]

Graphics technology firm NVIDIA has temporarily closed its online developer forum, after it fell victim to hackers who may have gained access to members' hashed passwords.

A notice on the NVIDIA Developer Zone website has reminded users of the importance of ensuring that you do not use the same passwords on multiple websites.

Password re-use is a big problem - with an alarming number of people using the same password on multiple sites.

The consequences of that lax attitude to security is that if you get hacked in one place, your other online accounts could also be accessed. For instance, if you used the same password on NVIDIA as you did on your web email account - it would be child's play for hackers to gain access to your personal communications and steal other information about you.

Read more: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/07/13/nvidia-android-forums-hackers/

 

[Ink]

Another boom of exposed credentials, just last week Yahoo Voices and social-networking site Formspring were hacked.

 

[McLovin]

Seems like it's happening every where. People really need to be careful on what they sign up to, you never know your account could of bee hacked. Plus it's going to get worse over time.

 

[Ink]

People really need to be careful on what they sign up to.

Wrong.
We can't do anything, except hope that the companies we are relying on have secured our data.

 

[Jack]

We can't do anything, except hope that the companies we are relying on have secured our data.

True,however you can prevent your other accounts from being over taken by using a different password for your other important sites.