Nvidia Forums Hacked, User Data Compromised
Nvidia has suspended forum operations in order to investigate an unauthorized breach.
The breach comes with some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that Nvidia's early investigation has concluded hackers managed to steal usernames, email addresses, passwords and public profile information.
The good news is that Nvidia actually encrypts their stored passwords, which means only hashed passwords with a random salt value were accessed. As a precautionary measure, Nvidia is reseting all forum passwords and advising users to change identical passwords on other websites.
Since email addresses were accessed, Nvidia stresses users not to give sensitive information to anybody impersonating an Nvidia employee over email.
Nvidia will keep us updated on the status of the forums here.

Such a necessary precaution that not all companies do.
Such a necessary precaution that not all companies do.
It probably isn't.
It's not encrypting, it's hashing, two different concepts.
This was posted else where earlier in the week anyway.... Tom's is always a few days behind on reporting anything.
You just don't hear of the 'little' incidents.
Perhaps, but I think that the point is that we hear of far more breaches now than even just this time last year.
Communism is not necessarily bad. Mocking them by calling them commies is discrimination. Whether or not they're doing any of it is not in question because we know that they and others do it, but that's not related to communism. Our own government is no better and does the same to others.
They are feeling left out because they now know that not only do serious gamers avoid them but the hackers can't even be bothered to take a look at their wares!
Considering Radeon cards are masters of compute with GCN (especially Hashing)... it shouldn't take to long for hackers to use Radeon render farms to crack the key and unlock all of the passwords.
I find the combination of "Serious" and "Gamer" funny. I make money with my compute abilities as well as play games. I make bitcoins/litecoins. I can trade them for Gold, Silver, USD, CAD etc.
I also play a whole slew of games and don't have any driver issues attributed to my 7970s. I do, however, have driver issues with my nVIDIA cards. I'm not the only one...
"Nvidia Display driver stopped responding and has recovered"
Must be VERY familiar to nVIDIA users.
Not to mention that China is everything but a communist society.
Just had to try starting a fanboy fight, huh Mousemonkey...
http://teachabroadchina.com/china-not-communist-country-ccp/
Good point.