If you open your email today you might find a series of emails from a range of social channels, email providers, and banks asking you to change your password.
Due to an encryption flaw, now named the “Heartbleed bug”, this bug has affected many popular websites and services right across the internet. Heartbleed has even affected the likes of Gmail and Facebook. This encryption flaw could have exposed your sensitive account information from passwords through to credit card numbers over the past two years.
Below are the details from the Mashable site detailing the key social media channels and their status. For more details on these and other areas affected head to http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/heartbleed-bug-websites-affected/?cid=146326
Was it affected? |
Is there a patch? |
Do you need to change your password? |
What did they say? |
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Unclear |
Yes |
Yes |
"We added protections for Facebook’s implementation of OpenSSL before this issue was publicly disclosed. We haven’t detected any signs of suspicious account activity, but we encourage people to ... set up a unique password." |
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Yes |
Yes |
YesYes |
"Our security teams worked quickly on a fix and we have no evidence of any accounts being harmed. But because this event impacted many services across the web, we recommend you update your password on Instagram and other sites, particularly if you use the same password on multiple sites.” |
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No |
No |
No |
"We didn't use the offending implementation of OpenSSL in www.linkedin.com or www.slideshare.net. As a result, HeartBleed does not present a risk to these web properties." |
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Yes |
Yes |
YesYes |
"We fixed the issue on Pinterest.com, and didn’t find any evidence of mischief. To be extra careful, we e-mailed Pinners who may have been impacted, and encouraged them to change their passwords." |
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Tumblr |
Yes |
Yes |
YesYes |
"We have no evidence of any breach and, like most networks, our team took immediate action to fix the issue." |
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No |
Yes |
Unclear |
Twitter wrote that OpenSSL "is widely used across the internet and at Twitter. We were able to determine that [our] servers were not affected by this vulnerability. We are continuing to monitor the situation |
Source: Mashable for details of the status of other companies head to http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/heartbleed-bug-websites-affected/?cid=146326