Kickstarter, world’s largest crowdfunding platform, revealed via a blog post that it was on Wednesday. The company said that law enforcement officials contacted it and alerted it that hackers had sought and gained unauthorized access to some of our customers’ data.
CEO, Yancey Strickler, said that though no credit card data of any kind was accessed by hackers, some information about customers was. Accessed information included usernames, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and encrypted passwords. Actual passwords were not revealed, however it is possible for a malicious person with enough computing power to guess and crack an encrypted password, particularly a weak or obvious one.
Kickstarter says upon learning about the hack, it immediately closed the security breach and began strengthening security measures. However it advises that customers create a new password for their Kickstarter accounts.
Yancey apologised that this happened. However he said that the company has set a very high bar for how they serve the community, and this incident was frustrating and upsetting. They claimed that they have since improved the security procedures and systems in numerous ways, and they will continue to do so in the weeks and months to come. They are working closely with law enforcement, and we are doing everything in their power to prevent this from happening again.
