Flak for Slack chaps in yak app hack flap: User database whacked
Workplace chat app Slack, popular among West Coast startup hipsters and others, has been hacked, its makers said today.
Slack vice-president of policy and compliance strategy Anne Toth has explained how over a four-day period in February, attackers were able to access a database containing account names, email addresses, phone numbers, Skype IDs and hashed passwords of Slack users. The biz, founded in 2013, was only able to confirm the intrusion “recently.”
The Slack service allows employees to create and manage internal message boards for individual projects and departments. In addition to chats, users can share images, links and content from services such as Twitter, Skype and Google Drive.
Slack, as a startup, is based in San Francisco, has 500,000 users logging in every day, and has a $1.2bn-plus valuation. Its CEO and cofounder Stewart Butterfield also helped create Flickr back in the day.
This headline was a bit of silver lining on an otherwise hard day: “Flak for Slack chaps in yak app hack flap”
Article source: http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/27/slack_hacked/