What Musicians and Music Fans Need to Worry About with the Heartbleed Bug

April 12, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments

Chances are you’ve heard about the Heartbleed issue, a wide-ranging OpenSSL security encryption bug that could see your sensitive data hijacked by hackers. We’re being told to change our passwords ASAP. Yeah, it’s a bad one.

Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, LinkedIn, Google and Tumblr are affected. Mashable has this handly list.

If you want to read up on what this means to music fans and musicians, Hypebot offers this.

Now if I can just remember all my passwords…

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