Opera one of the popular web browser with more than 1.7 million active users has confirmed hackers have
gained access to their company's sync server which is use to store user's account information and passwords.
“Earlier this week, we detected signs of an attack where access was gained to the Opera sync system. This attack was quickly blocked. Our investigations are ongoing, but we believe some data, including some of our sync users’ passwords and account information, such as login names, may have been compromised,” wrote by Opera in a blog post and they explained how intruders manage to gey access to their server, also many third-party website are synced to browsers, which means by using Opera’s synchronisation server hackers can decode their passwords.
Opera wrote on its blog post “Although we only store encrypted (for synchronized passwords) or hashed and salted (for authentication) passwords in this system, we have reset all the Opera sync account passwords as a precaution".
Opera has already sent out emails to Opera sync users informing them about the misshapen and have asked users to reset their passwords.
“We have also sent emails to all Opera sync users to inform them about the incident and ask them to change the password for their Opera sync accounts. In an abundance of caution, we have encouraged users to also reset any passwords to third party sites they may have synchronized with the service,” added Opera.
So if you are a opera user kindly reset your password.
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