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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Incident Response Case Study: Bitly Account Compromise

There is an important update from the Bitly Account Users from the Bitly Team. The Bitly Team is having some strong reasons to believe that Bitly account credentials may have been compromised; however, they have no indication at this time that the user's account has been accessed without permission.
Whenever a service provider is having some suspicion of account compromising incident, it is better to take precautions. In the same manner, to play safe in the cyberspace The Bitly Team had proactively disconnected any connections one might had done with Facebook and Twitter to publish the posts by using the URL Shortening Links using bit.ly or bitly.com . Once can safely reconnect these accounts in the next login.
If someone will login to their bitly account and if a user sees that their Facebook and Twitter accounts are still connected to their Bitly account, then this information is important for them: