The Kickstarter team have emailed all their users to say that “hackers had sought and gained unauthorized access to some of our customers’ data.” They claim that no credit card details were accessed by the hackers but some personal details such as usernames, email addresses, and encrypted passwords were.
It’s highly recommended you change your password, particularly if you use the same password and username combination elsewhere.
“On Wednesday night, law enforcement officials contacted Kickstarter and alerted us that hackers had sought and gained unauthorized access to some of our customers’ data,” Kickstarter wrote in the email to their users. “Upon learning this, we immediately closed the security breach and began strengthening security measures throughout the Kickstarter system.
“No credit card data of any kind was accessed by hackers. There is no evidence of unauthorized activity of any kind on your account.
“While no credit card data was accessed, some information about our customers was. Accessed information included usernames, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and encrypted passwords. Actual passwords were not revealed, however it is possible for a malicious person with enough computing power to guess and crack an encrypted password, particularly a weak or obvious one.”
The team have reacted to the infiltration and they say they’re “incredibly sorry that this happened. We set a very high bar for how we serve our community, and this incident is frustrating and upsetting. We have since improved our security procedures and systems in numerous ways, and we will continue to do so in the weeks and months to come. We are working closely with law enforcement, and we are doing everything in our power to prevent this from happening again.”
If you need to change your password then you should head over to Kickstarter and go to your account page.