Opera has been hacked, 1.7 million usernames and passwords can be compromised – ITavisen.no

Have informed all users and requesting they change their passwords on their sync accounts.

Earlier this week, then discovered Opera characters in one burglary in their system for synchronizing passwords.

Passwords and usernames astray In a
press release writing Opera that their research shows that some data, including user passwords and usernames may have fallen into the wrong hands.

they also wrote in the press release that they only store encrypted or hashed and salted passwords for authentication, but for to be on the safe side so they reset the password for all users of the service.

Blocked early
so it was earlier this week that the attack was discovered and Opera says in the press release that the attack was quickly blocked and that their investigation is ongoing as of this writing.

Contacted all users
all users of the service, about 1.7 million, is contact Opera with information about the event and instructions for how to change the password. To change your password, you can go directly to the reset password.

The remaining users of the Opera, 350 million, according to the press release does not have to do anything about this.

Opera concludes the press release that they take security very seriously and will regret the inconvenience this may cause for their users.

Source:
Opera