
Mark Zuckerberg named Time's 'Person of the Year' Other sites wrote about users' "ridiculous password habits," finding '123456' and 'password' to be the most popular passwords used on Gawker sites such as Gizmodo, Jezebel, Jalopnik and Lifehacker. The hack "prompted a number of web companies to reset passwords of users they think were affected by the attack," wrote Gadget Venue. Gawker Media's commenter databases were infiltrated by hackers who exposed the encrypted passwords and email addresses of more than 1 million users.
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Hot topics in the tech blogs for the week ending December 17 include a Gawker Media password breach, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is named Time's 'Person of the Year,' Google launches personalized voice recognition, Yahoo! lays off staff, plans to shut down, and Apple announces a launch date for its Mac App Store.
