Better link:
https://github.com/blog/1698-weak-pa...s-brute-forced
No thanks on clicking through some annoying Google+ page just to get to some two-bit "social news" site's crappy page full of ads that spams me with a giant modal popup begging me to like them on Facebook, ugh. ಠ_ಠ
Anyway, GitHub says they sent out emails to the affected users, but with such an enormous breach, I'd rather they sent emails to
all users. I didn't get an email, so apparently I wasn't "affected", but I changed my password anyway. Admittedly my GitHub password was pretty weak (same old easy-to-remember password I use for a bunch of random accounts that contains no personal info and nothing important) but apparently a short, all-lowercase-letters password that isn't a dictionary word was still "strong enough", lol.