Kickstarter Hacked

This seems like a good time to point out that – because I was using LastPass – it's unlikely that my password will be teased out of the hacked data by any method. 

LastPass generated, then stored, my Kickstarter Password, and would fill the password in when I visited the Kickstarter site. It was unique to the Kickstarter site, too. Before I changed it, my Kickstarter password was Jx5U%me1V1^NDTI9yezVtPtg&U^pHQ

My new password is 100 randomly generated letters, numbers, and special characters.

Thanks, +LastPass, you're the best!

Important Kickstarter Security Notice
On Wednesday night, law enforcement officials contacted Kickstarter and alerted us that hackers had sought and gained unauthorized access to some of our customers’ data. Upon learning this, we immediately closed the security breach and began …

4 thoughts on “Kickstarter Hacked”

  1. God damnit. At 30+ characters, I should be good on changing over all my non-critical stuff until tomorrow.

    Last time this happened, I stopped using the service (+Evernote) forever because of their crap security.

  2. I've gotten to the point that I don't even care about the hacks, because I'm using tools that only ever could expose the one account. 
    My goal for 2014 is to find a bank or credit card that makes generating single use or masked credit cards a snap, the way +LastPass has made password management into Not A Thing anymore.

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/12/04/why-you-should-use-a-masked-credit-card-to-shop-online/

     I should be good on changing over all my non-critical stuff until tomorrow. implies that you're still reusing passwords.

    Shakes finger at you

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