emNature/em security breach prompts password reset - The Register
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The website of science journal Nature has suffered a security breach that resulted in the potential exposure of users' login credentials.
The login credentials were stored in an encrypted form, making them hard to extract. But Nature.com has still opted to reset the passwords of affected users, as a precaution.
It's unclear how many records - stored on the same server accessed by hackers - were affected at the time of writing. Details stored included username, first name and last name, along with associated password hashes. No financially sensitive data was involved.
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