User Database of Gawker.com Gets Hacked; Warning Published

Gawker Media Inc. has begun demanding all its subscribers to have their passwords changed as a security precaution as they announce that anonymous hackers have intrigued their company's user databases and have assembly compromised it already. The company made a post on its website this Sunday stating that the passwords were even though encrypted and are not so easily revealed, but simple ones might be exposed to attacks by hackers' computers, hence to be on the safe side, use precaution and change your passwords as soon as possible.

Gawker's Gizmodo blog for technology gained popularity in around May when it crutially posted pictures of an iPhone prototype, which was apparently lost by an Apple Inc. engineer employee in a Silicon Valley bar.

Gawker is a website responsible for a series of blogs on the media, technology and other issues. And the company confesses that this breach has made an embarrassing situation for the company. It says passwords should be changed on other sites where the same password was used.