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Lifestyle pin-up site Pinterest: Hack attempts blamed on ‘credential stuffing’

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By John Leyden 11 Dec 2017
 

There’s a chill going around cyberspace with an upsurge of people concerned that their Pinterest account has been hacked.

 

Searches for the term “Pinterest hacked” spiked last week while “pinterest password” started to trend on Twitter. UK security researcher Scott Helme recently reported that his Pinterest account had been temporarily frozen after someone attempted to log into his account, seemingly from Egypt.

 

“The worrying thing is that I use a @1Password generated password that isn’t re-used on any other service, so I’m not sure how someone could have logged into my account,” Helme said in a Twitter update.

 

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