{"id":5811,"date":"2018-10-30T21:01:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T01:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/?p=5811"},"modified":"2018-10-30T21:01:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T01:01:51","slug":"tumblr-patches-a-flaw-that-could-have-exposed-users-account-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/2018\/10\/30\/tumblr-patches-a-flaw-that-could-have-exposed-users-account-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Tumblr Patches A Flaw That Could Have Exposed Users Account Info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tumblr Patches A Flaw That Could Have Exposed Users Account Info<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Swati Khandelwal<\/p>\n<p>Tumblr today published a report admitting the presence of a security vulnerability in its website that could have allowed hackers to steal login credentials and other private information for users&#8217; accounts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The affected information included users email addresses, protected (hashed and salted) account passwords, self-reported location (a feature no longer available), previously used email addresses, last login IP addresses, and names of the blog associated with every account.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tumblr assured that its internal investigation found no evidence of the bug being abused by an attacker.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reference: <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2018\/10\/tumblr-account-hacking.html\">https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2018\/10\/tumblr-account-hacking.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tumblr Patches A Flaw That Could Have Exposed Users Account Info &#8211; Swati Khandelwal Tumblr today published a report admitting the presence of a security vulnerability in its website that could have allowed hackers to steal login credentials and other private information for users&#8217; accounts. &nbsp; The affected information included users email addresses, protected (hashed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[716552],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-week-09-it-outsourcing-cloud-computing","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5812,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811\/revisions\/5812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}