More victims of a 2015 credential-harvesting incident have come to light. Popular workspace collaboration platform Slack is in the middle of asking tens of thousands of users to reset their passwords ...
I just got a Slack message from my editor that the 2015 Slack password breach is back in the news. The real question is: Was that really my editor or just someone who breached his password in 2015 and ...
UPDATE: Slack confirmed the password reset and said it was related to a previously reported 2015 security breach. The article below represents ZDNet's coverage before the official Slack confirmation.
Slack notified roughly 0.5% of its users that it reset their passwords after fixing a bug exposing salted password hashes when creating or revoking shared invitation links for workspaces. "When a user ...