The CEO of Bitly publicly admitted on May 8 that the company’s URL-shortening service was compromised.
Bitly CEO Mark Josephson blogged that compromised credentials include users’ email addresses, encrypted passwords, API keys and OAuth tokens. OAuth tokens are used to connect a Bitly account to identity systems from Facebook and Twitter for user access.
Read the full story at eWEEK:
Bitly Attacked, Advises Users to Reset Accounts
Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.
