Opera reveals its sync service is hacked, resets passwords as precautionary measure

Earlier last week, Opera reported that hackers had gained access to the Opera sync service which is used to sync browsing data between devices.

According to a post on its official blog, Opera said that the attack was ‘quickly blocked.’ It added that investigation is ongoing. However, some data may have been compromised.

Opera went on to say that despite using encrypted, hashed and salted passwords in its systems, it still went ahead and reset all Opera sync passwords as a precautionary measure.

In an email sent out to Opera sync users, it informed them about the breach and advised them to change their passwords. As a precautionary measure, Opera also advised users of the Opera sync service to reset passwords for any third party applications that are connected to their Opera sync account. For the full article click here 

from hacker samurai http://ift.tt/2bL8FUu
via IFTTT