Change your github password

[Rilgamon]

Warning to GITHUB users, Please reset your passwords now! Use best possible strong password. Recently many #Github accounts (with weak password) were compromised in a massive brute force attack from 40,000 IP addresses. DETAILS:
https://plus.google.com/112788764123...ts/JwDhf1JffWs

[Haleth]

Affected users have had their passwords reset, but it's a good idea to change your password anyway.

I can see several failed login attempts on my GitHub account over the past couple of days, from Venezuela, China and Mexico.

[Resike]

Well if you use weak passwords then you deserve it. A good password should not be able to be bruteforced over a year on an average PC.

[Phanx]

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.

[Rilgamon]

Originally Posted by Phanx No thanks on clicking through some annoying Google+ page

While true I chose to link the source I got the information from to honour the act of sharing

[Rainrider]

Github's advise: http://xkcd.com/936/