Misery loves company, though that probably won't come as much consolation to social networking site LinkedIn, which is now joined by at least two other sites that suffered a serious security breach at the hands of the same band of hackers. Both Last.fm and eHarmony issued separate statements confirming that some user passwords may have been compromised in the recent hacker attack.
Online dating site eHarmony revealed that a hacker made off with some user info, including user names, email addresses, and hashed passwords, but said the site itself was not hacked. Even with the information obtained, eHarmony said it has a number of safeguards in place -- like state-of-the-art firewalls, load balancers, SSL, and other sophisticated security approaches -- that make it difficult for hackers to actually break into the site. It's a point eHarmony seemed intent to drive home.
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