Skip to main content

Thursday, November 2, 2017

Today's Message

Posted: Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Information Security Awareness: Have You Created an Account on Diet.com, Bitly, Kickstarter, or Disqus? Please Read

As you know, data breaches happen all the time, but it may be weeks, months, sometimes years before the company releases information to account holders. HaveIbeenpwned? tracks these breaches and publishes the lists of compromised accounts when they are made public. The site also notifies Buffalo State when pwned accounts are linked to a Buffalo State e-mail address. This means the user who set up her account on Kickstarter, for instance, used a Buffalo State e-mail address with the account.

We have been notified about the following accounts over the last three weeks. The figure in parentheses indicates the number of account holders who used a Buffalo State e-mail address to sign up for the account:

Military Spam List (1)

We Heart IT (13)

Diet.com (19)

Disqus (113)

Kickstarter (37)

Bitly (16)

Go to https://haveIbeenpwned.com and type in your Buffalo State e-mail address. If it shows up, change your password, please.

Submitted by: Melissa J. Miszkiewicz
Also appeared:
Thursday, November 2, 2017
Loading