Following in the ignominious footsteps of LinkedIn and eHarmony, Last.fm is today disclosing that it too has suffered a security breach that has led to “the leak of some Last.fm user passwords.” The note from the company doesn’t go into any more depth than that, with a related tweet adding that a security issue is being investigated and advising that, as a precaution, all users should log in and change their passwords. That’s sound advice, but what’s going on with all these compromised passwords this week?
PSA: Change your Last.fm password, site is having a ‘security issue’
Following in the ignominious footsteps of LinkedIn and eHarmony, Last.fm is today disclosing that it too has suffered a security breach that has lead to “the leak of some Last.fm user passwords.”
Following in the ignominious footsteps of LinkedIn and eHarmony, Last.fm is today disclosing that it too has suffered a security breach that has lead to “the leak of some Last.fm user passwords.”
We're investigating a security issue with user passwords. As a precaution, we recommend you change your password: last.fm/passwordsecuri…
— Last.fm (@lastfm) June 7, 2012
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