Gawker’s Richard Lawson wants to know if the breach is limited to “just the peasants?” In the chat, Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan, after hearing that it is just Gawker users who have been compromised, remarks “oh, well. In perhaps a good example of don’t write it if you wouldn’t want someone to read it, this screenshot from the attackers showed up on, detailing a conversation from July 22 nd between internal Gawker employees noting that usernames and passwords for Gawker users had shown up on 4 chan. The attackers state they have been reading Gawker’s e-mails for a while, suggesting they have maintained shell access for some time period before the last three days. Gnosis called out these quotes from chat logs between Gawker employees in their posting on Pirate Bay (a file sharing site) also, where Gawker employees engaged in a bit of hubris following the denial of service attacks ostensibly coming from members of the 4chan board on their web site this summer. Ryan T.: We Are Not Scared of 4chan Here at 210 Elizabeth St NY NY 10012” Hamilton N.: Nick Denton Says Bring It On 4Chan, Right to My Home Address (After While Gawker has posted a notice indicating that it is the user names and passwords of people who comment on their web site that have been compromised, analysis of the file released by the crackers themselves indicates that the breach extends to employees of Gawker, includes credentials for internal systems (Google applications, collaboration tools) used at the company, includes a leak of Gawker’s custom source code, includes credentials of Gawker employees for other web sites, includes FTP credentials for other web sites Gawker has worked with, includes access to Gawker’s statistics web site, and includes the e-mails of a number of the users who left comments at Gawker as well as users of, , and.
The group that calls itself Gnosis claimed and provided evidence of responsibility, motivated in their words by Gawker’s arrogance in its previous dealings with members of the Internet board 4chan. Gossip site Gawker has experienced a large data breach whose scale fully came to light Sunday.
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