Luckly I dont have an account there but anyone whose commented on kotaku (which is popular for shmuppers) and any of the other gawker sites will probably have their details including their email address leaked on pirate bay or someother such site
http://lifehacker.com/5712785/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1TiiJD21lY
Gawker / Kotaku sites hacked change your PW
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Re: Gawker / Kotaku sites hacked change your PW
Gawker is a terrible network. Especially when they act like this:
These "journalists" still have this attitude post-crisis, so they have apparently managed to stay on their high horse. I'm calling them "journalists" within quotation marks because doing so indirectly would indicate that they actually are journalists, which is wrong. "Journalists of Gawker" are using this title as a status label, when in reality their expressions are nothing more than a common twitter user's thought of the moment.
Kotaku commenters are something special. They're the type who would visit the site because the "news doesn't get reported elsewhere". Again, quotations, because oftentimes it is not news, but rather filler content, which blends nicely in with Kotaku commenters themselves. Nobody cares if some random Japanese otaku stole 60,000 yen from a tourist in Akihabara, but when they're low on material, they'll use any little thing to draw attention to themselves.
Honestly, if you've ever even commented once on Kotaku, I hope your shit gets wrecked. Websites like these deserve less than attention, so anyone who actively participates in the support of them by commenting can't be respected. Shit often attracts flies, so let this term correlate with the situation.
These "journalists" still have this attitude post-crisis, so they have apparently managed to stay on their high horse. I'm calling them "journalists" within quotation marks because doing so indirectly would indicate that they actually are journalists, which is wrong. "Journalists of Gawker" are using this title as a status label, when in reality their expressions are nothing more than a common twitter user's thought of the moment.
Kotaku commenters are something special. They're the type who would visit the site because the "news doesn't get reported elsewhere". Again, quotations, because oftentimes it is not news, but rather filler content, which blends nicely in with Kotaku commenters themselves. Nobody cares if some random Japanese otaku stole 60,000 yen from a tourist in Akihabara, but when they're low on material, they'll use any little thing to draw attention to themselves.
Honestly, if you've ever even commented once on Kotaku, I hope your shit gets wrecked. Websites like these deserve less than attention, so anyone who actively participates in the support of them by commenting can't be respected. Shit often attracts flies, so let this term correlate with the situation.
Re: Gawker / Kotaku sites hacked change your PW
For once I'm agreed with Elixir strongly; these are just New Yorkers pretending to be our friends, so there's no national pride at stake in selling them up the river, anyway.