![]() ![]() No credit card data was known to be affected, but other customer information was: usernames, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and encrypted passwords. Kickstarter was contacted by law enforcement officials on Wednesday night, alerting them to the hack, and they subsequently locked down the service and sent an email to the user base notifying them of the incident. In a blog post published Saturday, February 15th, Strickler announced that hackers had obtained unauthorized access to Kickstarter, the popular crowdfunding platform. In the wake of a hack that appears to have affected customer data, Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler has strongly recommended that users not only change their Kickstarter account password, and update passwords for any other accounts using the same one, but also start using a password manager like LastPass for help with password security. ![]()
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