Hackers hit Washington Post for second time in three years

The company printed Wednesday that the Washington Ppost’s servers have been breached for the 2d time in three years, giving hackers access to worker usernames and passwords.

Neither private subscriber data nor the newspaper’s publishing machine had been believed to have been accessed within the intrusion, which the corporate suspects originated in China because it started on a server utilized by the newspaper’s foreign body of workers. The newspaper said there was strong evidence Chinese language hackers were behind a 2011 hack of the newspaper’s job-seeker database, in addition to contemporary months-length network breaches on the New York occasions and The Wall Boulevard Journal.

“This is an ongoing investigation. However, we imagine it was a couple of days at most,” spokeswoman Kris Coati informed the newspaper.

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Even though the extent of the information misplaced was no longer clear and passwords were saved in encrypted kind, the corporation recommended that each of its workers change their usernames and passwords.

In June 2011, about 1.27 million usernames and email addresses belonging to individuals on the lookout for employment on the Washington Put Up Jobs web page were accessed through a knowledge breach; however, the firm stated no passwords or different personal knowledge had been affected.