J-source site hacked
J-source, the website for the Canadian Journalism Project, has been hacked and a message went out today to subscribers that at least one intruder gained access to username, e-mail and password information. Ivor Shapiro, the editor-in-chief of J-source (and a Ryerson University journalism professor) said:
If you are using similar or identical usernames and/or passwords to gain access to any vital accounts, we recommend that you change your logins to those accounts immediately.While we have since taken measures to secure the site, we can’t guarantee that our measures are foolproof. Therefore, to protect your privacy from this point forward, we are removing your account information from the site database.It means that readers won't be able to send content or retrieve full text from the database (which was one of the principal reasons for and attractions of J-source). No word on when that will be resolved.
posted by D. B. Scott at
1:32 pm
1 Comments:
Yes, it was tough to have to take our user list offline, DB, but to honour our commitment to users' privacy, we will keep it that way until we can build systems that are completely secure (which will take a while). Meanwhile, J-Source is functioning normally and, with fulltime associate editor Regan Ray now installed, continues to expand as a place for news, commentary and resources about journalism in Canada. Users' comments are as welcome and easy to post as ever, as are suggestions for new content and news tips. And any registered user who wants available full text from our award-winning journalism database should simply request it via email until another workaround has been found. - Ivor Shapiro, Editor-in-Chief, J-Source.ca.,
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