This weekend, Gawker Media's servers were hacked, leaving many user accounts and their corresponding passwords vulnerable. Nearly 1.25 million accounts, including more than 500,000 user e-mails and more than 185,000 decrypted passwords, ended up being posted online.
I was one of those users. As a result, someone from Los Angeles was able to log into my Facebook account because I'm an idiot who uses the same password for multiple websites. Somehow, Facebook figured out that this chump in L.A. wasn't me and locked down my account.
When I logged onto Facebook yesterday, I received a message saying they had detected suspicious activity on my account. Then I was prompted to identify a series of pictures of my Facebook friends in order to prove it was me. That part was kind of cool, actually.
Anywhore, I went to ALL of the websites I use often: Twitter, Google, Gmail, Facebook, Paypal, etc. and changed all my passwords just in case.
To find out if YOU got Gawkered - go HERE. Plug in an email address (or Gawker user name) to see if your information has been compromised. Here's what it said when I plugged in MY user name ...
Yikes.
