{"id":108730,"date":"2019-09-04T03:55:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T01:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/09\/04\/passwords-usernames-and-ips-of-over-560000-users-exposed-in-a-hack-on-a-popular-web-comic-forum\/"},"modified":"2019-09-04T03:55:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T01:55:54","slug":"passwords-usernames-and-ips-of-over-560000-users-exposed-in-a-hack-on-a-popular-web-comic-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=108730","title":{"rendered":"Passwords, usernames, and IP&#039;s of over 560,000 users exposed in a hack on a popular web comic forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers were able to steal hashed passwords encrypted using the obsolete MD5 algorithm which converts a plaintext password into a\u00a0 random assortment of letters and numbers.<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-7424783\/Passwords-usernames-IPs-560-000-users-exposed-hack-popular-web-comic-forum.html?ns_mchannel=rss&#038;ito=1490&#038;ns_campaign=1490\" target=\"_blank\">Passwords, usernames, and IP&#039;s of over 560,000 users exposed in a hack on a popular web comic forum<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers were able to steal hashed passwords encrypted using the obsolete MD5 algorithm which converts a plaintext password into a\u00a0 random assortment of letters and numbers. Via: Passwords, usernames, and IP&#039;s of over 560,000 users exposed in a hack on a popular web comic forum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}