Gawker Media Hacked

Gawker Media usually subscribes to the “No press is bad press,” philosophy but this may be an exception: The blogging network was hacked over the weekend by a group calling itself “Gnossis,” which claimed solidarity with 4chan, the hacker message board that a Gawker writer teased in a post. The hackers have released a database of Gawker’s 1.3 million users, which includes many emails and passwords, as well as some of the network’s sites’ internal deliberations. Gnossis, meanwhile, may have used the Gawker score to move on to bigger targets: Some user names were registered to government email addresses, which Gnossis plans to target.