As a precaution, we have replaced or deleted all digital tokens to eliminate any possibility of misuse.īefore they were changed, hackers could have used these tokens to:
The databases may have contained digital tokens used to connect your Flipboard account to that third-party account. That is a concern, admitted Flipboard’s advisory:
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If you’ve not changed your password since March 2012, that becomes an absolute must (Flipboard’s userbase was approaching 20 million at that time.)Īnd, if there’s a chance you reused your Flipboard password on another site then that will need to be changed too.Ī Flipboard feature available since around 2015 is the ability to register a new account quickly via Google, Facebook and Twitter using Single Sign On (SSO). Our advice is to ignore the uncertainty over how many users are affected and manually change the password to something secure as soon as possible. However, anyone who remains logged in (from their smartphone, say) won’t receive notice of the need to reset their password unless they either log out or attempt to access Flipboard from a new device. The first question, then, “Should I change my password?” Flipboard’s advisory says:Īs a precaution, we have reset all users’ passwords, even though the passwords were cryptographically protected and not all users’ account information was involved. However, accounts created before 14 March 2012 (and not changed since) used the less secure SHA-1. The good news is that passwords on accounts created since 2012 were salted and hashed using Bcrypt, which should make life very hard for anyone trying to guess secure passwords on any scale. Data stolen included names, Flipboard user names, email addresses and hashed passwords. It’s not clear how many Flipboard users had their data compromised.
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We’ve covered a lot of data breaches in recent years but this one has one or two wrinkles that are worth highlighting.Īccording to Flipboard, hackers gained access to data between 2 June 2018 and 23 March 2019, plus a short window between 21 and 22 April 2019. Popular news aggregation site Flipboard – one billion app downloads from Google Play and counting – has become the latest internet company to admit it has suffered a breach.
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