The Consumerist representatives notified their readers that the site outages experienced in the previous days were caused by a security breach.
They didn’t provide many details regarding the security issue, but as a precaution they turned off commenting on all articles and they plan to reset all user passwords.
“We first took the site down late Wednesday afternoon, when we were alerted to a security concern. The site was then cleaned and cleared by our security experts, and put back online within about two hours,” the Consumerist Security Team wrote.
“Last night, we detected a new problem and took the site down for another five hours in order to address that issue.”
"To limit security concerns, the Consumerist is now operating in a mode that does not permit commenting. We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause."
They advised users to change their password at any site where they use the same password as Consumerist. At this time, You cannot change your password at Consumerist due to the no-comment mode, but the Consumerist promised that they will alert users when that changes.
They didn’t provide many details regarding the security issue, but as a precaution they turned off commenting on all articles and they plan to reset all user passwords.
“We first took the site down late Wednesday afternoon, when we were alerted to a security concern. The site was then cleaned and cleared by our security experts, and put back online within about two hours,” the Consumerist Security Team wrote.
“Last night, we detected a new problem and took the site down for another five hours in order to address that issue.”
"To limit security concerns, the Consumerist is now operating in a mode that does not permit commenting. We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause."
They advised users to change their password at any site where they use the same password as Consumerist. At this time, You cannot change your password at Consumerist due to the no-comment mode, but the Consumerist promised that they will alert users when that changes.