@dang, always been curious about this: why are posts like this grey text vs dark test? It's difficult to read, being so low-contrast. I assume it's based on numbers, the poster, up/downvotes etc - but it seems a poor use of those systems given it sacrifices readability. Is it just a light mode thing? Is it just me?
I always assumed it was the down arrow affecting it, but I have always giggled at the fact that people with sharp eyes have to endure the bad posts while others do not
Hackers got their hands on a loot of 300k pirated book pdfs? And internal documents that were already leaked by someone that googled "how to share a pdf".
Geez, I know nobody here clicks through and reads articles before commenting, but are we not even reading the posts now?
>we found that the third party may have accessed your email address... last 4 digits of your credit card and country, credit card issuer, credit card expiry date, payment history
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313197
Mixed feelings. I feel sorry for the people whose info was taken but Scribd does not have my sympathy.
I only received this same email a few hours ago, Oct 30. Why not tell all customers at once, especially if payment information was involved?
And they posted about a security incident on their blog on Oct 1. https://support.scribd.com/hc/en-us/articles/53787421531284-...
No one is safe anymore.
Hide yo apps, hide yo websites, hide yo hosts
How long until we all get cyber-war fatigue and this isn't even news anymore.
Man, people stopped caring about all the leaks and breaches and dark web data sales over 10 years ago
@dang, always been curious about this: why are posts like this grey text vs dark test? It's difficult to read, being so low-contrast. I assume it's based on numbers, the poster, up/downvotes etc - but it seems a poor use of those systems given it sacrifices readability. Is it just a light mode thing? Is it just me?
I always assumed it was the down arrow affecting it, but I have always giggled at the fact that people with sharp eyes have to endure the bad posts while others do not
Did some exploit get disclosed? HN frontpage is spammed with breaches.
The exploit is called AI (or LLMs)
I don't see any email like this in my inbox. Perhaps they are only sending this email to those who have their payment information saved on Scribd?
Nice, I've been trying to hack scribd to download a pdf all day
Wonder if there's anything of worth.
Hackers got their hands on a loot of 300k pirated book pdfs? And internal documents that were already leaked by someone that googled "how to share a pdf".
Geez, I know nobody here clicks through and reads articles before commenting, but are we not even reading the posts now?
>we found that the third party may have accessed your email address... last 4 digits of your credit card and country, credit card issuer, credit card expiry date, payment history
not even worth disclosing nowadays, almost entirely public info
Great reason to use privacy.com virtual cards wherever possible and online
yea, until privacy.com gets hacked
What would they do with my bank account and routing number?
I don't even think they actually pirated book pdfs. Just previews to get you to sign up that lead to no where