{"id":177393,"date":"2016-08-29T08:31:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T06:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=177393"},"modified":"2016-08-29T08:32:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T06:32:56","slug":"opera-web-sync-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/177393-opera-web-sync-hack.html","title":{"rendered":"Opera web sync hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opera.com\/blogs\/security\/2016\/08\/opera-server-breach-incident\/\"><strong>Opera has detected<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0signs of an attack where access was gained to the Opera sync system. \u201cThis attack was quickly blocked,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe some data, including some of our sync users\u2019 passwords and account information, such as login names, may have been compromised.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Opera only stores encrypted (for synchronized passwords) or hashed and salted (for authentication) passwords in this system, but has reset all Opera sync account passwords as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have also sent emails to all Opera sync users to inform them about the incident and ask them to change the password for their Opera sync accounts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Opera sync had 1.7 million active users last month, less than 0.5% of the Opera user base of 350 million.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Opera<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/177089-free-opera-vpn-comes-to-android.html\"><strong>Free Opera VPN comes to Android<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/173584-opera-mini-now-supports-video-downloads.html\"><strong>Opera Mini now supports video downloads<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/172400-opera-browser-sold-for-600-million.html\"><strong>Opera browser sold for $600 million<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opera has detected signs of an attack where access was gained to the Opera sync system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":163994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,207],"class_list":["post-177393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-opera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177409,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177393\/revisions\/177409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}