areapal.com - Hacked

Looks like it is hacking season. Most of the online social networking sites are being targeted like this. Recently areapal was hacked and my contacts received a lot of spam messages.

It appears that hackers are becoming more and more painful by hacking sites and stealing users data. Beginning this month, Campaignmonitor.com was hacked and many users received spam messages. Though campaign monitor was able to fix the security breach, the damage done was done.

More and more the services get networked, the security issues becomes a problem.

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