But the company won't say how the passwords are stored, which may indicate if they can be unscrambled by an attacker

Opera has confirmed that a hacker breached one of the company's sync servers, potentially exposing passwords. The Norway-based internet browser maker said in a blog post that it "quickly blocked" an attack on its systems earlier this week, but admitted that some data was compromised, including "some of our sync users' passwords and account information," such as login names. But the company said it doesn't know the full scope of what was compromised. Opera said that it has reset all the Opera sync account passwords as a precaution. At the time of the attack, more than 1.7 million active users last month used the feature, which which allow users to share website passwords across devices. The company confirmed that passwords are hashed and salted -- an industry standard practice to scramble passwords so that they are unusable -- but didn't provide specifics on how, leaving no clear indication if the passwords can be unscrambled by an attacker. Opera staffer Tarquin Wilton-Jones, who wrote the blog post, said the company will "not divulge exactly how authentication passwords on our systems are prepared for storage," as this would "only help a potential attacker." We sent Opera some questions but did not hear back at the time of writing. If that changes, we'll update the piece.

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Opera resets passwords after sync server hacked

But the company won't say how the passwords are stored, which may indicate if they can be unscrambled by an attacker

Opera has confirmed that a hacker breached one of the company's sync servers, potentially exposing passwords. The Norway-based internet browser maker said in a blog post that it "quickly blocked" an attack on its systems earlier this week, but admitted that some data was compromised, including "some of our sync users' passwords and account information," such as login names. But the company said it doesn't know the full scope of what was compromised. Opera said that it has reset all the Opera sync account passwords as a precaution. At the time of the attack, more than 1.7 million active users last month used the feature, which which allow users to share website passwords across devices. The company confirmed that passwords are hashed and salted -- an industry standard practice to scramble passwords so that they are unusable -- but didn't provide specifics on how, leaving no clear indication if the passwords can be unscrambled by an attacker. Opera staffer Tarquin Wilton-Jones, who wrote the blog post, said the company will "not divulge exactly how authentication passwords on our systems are prepared for storage," as this would "only help a potential attacker." We sent Opera some questions but did not hear back at the time of writing. If that changes, we'll update the piece.

Microsoft plans to launch a new Xbox and that the device

This device offers users access to the games but of course with the exception of those famous ones where users can choose between games on the Windows Store, and this is quite similar to the Apple TV is provided, which provides users access to the contents of the shop App Store.It is not clear yet the amount that will cost him this device, it is worth mentioning that in 2013, Microsoft's Xbox, and decided to design lighter, but abandoned the plan to focus on the Xbox and.Due to the popularity of Apple TV and the fact that Microsoft has expanded its Windows system to include all kinds of products, including the launch of Xbox, the Xbox and that is similar to devices such as Apple TV comes at an appropriate time for all

 

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Microsoft plans to launch a new Xbox and that the device

This device offers users access to the games but of course with the exception of those famous ones where users can choose between games on the Windows Store, and this is quite similar to the Apple TV is provided, which provides users access to the contents of the shop App Store.It is not clear yet the amount that will cost him this device, it is worth mentioning that in 2013, Microsoft's Xbox, and decided to design lighter, but abandoned the plan to focus on the Xbox and.Due to the popularity of Apple TV and the fact that Microsoft has expanded its Windows system to include all kinds of products, including the launch of Xbox, the Xbox and that is similar to devices such as Apple TV comes at an appropriate time for all

 

Microsoft will send a warning to users if their accounts had been hacked from international governments

Microsoft Corp. said it will send users a warning in the case came under their own accounts such as Microsoft Outlook e-mail services and other services to try to penetrate by foreign governments.

The company has published some tips to secure their accounts from better penetration, such as activating the log two-step Two-Step Verification and use complex passwords in addition to avoid questionable e-mails from its source also asked all users updated browsers and programs of protection from malware

  permanently

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Microsoft will send a warning to users if their accounts had been hacked from international governments

Microsoft Corp. said it will send users a warning in the case came under their own accounts such as Microsoft Outlook e-mail services and other services to try to penetrate by foreign governments.

The company has published some tips to secure their accounts from better penetration, such as activating the log two-step Two-Step Verification and use complex passwords in addition to avoid questionable e-mails from its source also asked all users updated browsers and programs of protection from malware

  permanently