Gizmodo Data Breach Q&A: We're Here to Help

[techieguy]

All the Gawker Media sites were compromised this weekend. This probably leaves you with a lot of questions on the status of your accounts. Here's the place to ask them. Both editors and tech are here at your disposal.



First thing you should do is change your password. Lifehacker's FAQ is a good place to start to figure out how. There are some quirks in the password reset function right now, like not being able to access your account if your email is locked out. This will be fixed in the near future. But you should start in that post to get a good idea of what happened. The short story is, your Twitter and Facebook accounts that you linked to your comment profiles are safe—those passwords didn't get compromised—but if you use the same password everywhere, then you should audit and update them.         

Gizmodo Data Breach Q&A: We're Here to Help