15 Million Hacked Kickstarter and Bitly Passwords Are Now Publicly Available




Life Hacks – Spoken Edition show

Summary: This morning I got two friendly alerts from HaveIBeenPwned, a free service that tracks website hacks and tells you if your info was exposed. It told me that my old passwords for Kickstarter and Bitly, hacked in 2014, were now publicly available online. Bitly (the URL shortener) and Kickstarter (the slim-wallet store) had announced these hacks back when they discovered them. That hacked account info, which includes usernames and passwords, has finally worked its way onto the public internet.