Business Insider was hacked

Business Insider‘s website was hacked on Wednesday morning, reports Rob Price of Business Insider.

Price writes, “Attackers identifying themselves as OurMine posted and edited some stories on the US version of the website. ‘Hey, don’t worry we are just testing your security, we didn’t change your password or anything,’ the message said. A push notification was also sent to users of Business Insider’s app.

“We apologise for the inconvenience, and are working on getting things back to normal as soon as possible.

“The attack may have taken advantage of the fact that at least one Business Insider employee with publishing privileges re-used a password across multiple sites.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.