General / Off-Topic Change your Kickstarter password

[Cody]

Anyone else received an email alert from Kickstarter?

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 strengthening security measures throughout the Kickstarter system.

No credit card data of any kind was accessed by hackers. There is no evidence of unauthorized activity of any kind on your account.

While no credit card data was accessed, some information about our customers was. Accessed information included usernames, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and encrypted passwords. Actual passwords were not revealed, however it is possible for a malicious person with enough computing power to guess and crack an encrypted password, particularly a weak or obvious one.

 

[OillyRag]

Anyone else received an email alert from Kickstarter?

Just checked ... not here.

 

[Perseus]

I've got the same e-mail.

 

[Aewarin Jameson]

Yes.

Passwords changed.

(elite.frontier.co.uk needs to be changed at the store website - it's not obvious )

 

[Patrick_68000]

Change your password Kickstarter

Alert. Here is an e-mail which I received from Kickstarter. Perhaps also have received you ?

 

[Patrick_68000]

For my part, I have just changed my password, by security

 

[Zak Gordon]

Good to know, and thanks Patrick, once you visit the KS site they have a banner saying to change your password, so i followed that and did like you did, make a new password.

 

[Dalkeith]

Password changed

 

[Cody]

@Mods - I asked for this to be moved, but someone else has since hit the main forum with it, so too late.

 

[Patrick_68000]

Oops I also put a thread on the general. I had not seen your thread. Finally, it is better to warn twice

 

[Patrick_68000]

Yes.

Passwords changed.

(elite.frontier.co.uk needs to be changed at the store website - it's not obvious )

I prefer not to change anything in the new store, because I do not have the impression that the application is 100% reliable

 

[alchemy42]

Didn't get an email (yet), but when I logged into Kickstarter it advised me to change my password.

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Beachlight7]

.....
Why have they hidden it away and not on their front page?
Could the blogs/twitter been hacked to say there is a fault when there is not?
Also I can not see any banner saying to change the password on the main website.

 

[Kroy]

only reason I have a kickstarter account is for E: D.

what happens if you signed in via FaceBrick?

 

[Memnoch]

Yep, same here. Got burned a few months back and won't be going through that again. I recommend KeePass with Chrome integration for storing and accessing passwords.

 

[Memnoch]

Same here. Dutifully I have obliged. One recommendation I would make is never choose a password that is less than 9 characters and if you can, always use a non-alpha character. There are rainbow tables out there for the entire ASCII keyspace up to 8 characters but none that exists for 9 and up as far as I know as they haven't been generated yet.

 

[GuruNot]

Just received it too, changed.

 

[Aewarin Jameson]

I prefer not to change anything in the new store, because I do not have the impression that the application is 100% reliable

I had to - like an idiot I used the same password and as they are linked it made sense.

Not relevant for most here mind .. I'm tired and not thinking straight.

 

[Cody]

I had to - like an idiot I used the same password and as they are linked it made sense.

Ditto! It seems that by changing my password at the store, it automatically changed it in the backer's app too.

 

[FS3DPete]

Yep, same here. Got burned a few months back and won't be going through that again. I recommend KeePass with Chrome integration for storing and accessing passwords.

Looks like a good cross platform solution. I'm going to try it out.