Pinterest’s virtual bulletin boards made it the Internet’s hottest young website in 2012.
STORY HIGHLIGHTSThe sites were breached via their vendor, ZendeskThe photosharing site Pinterest warned users about the breach via e-mail on FridayThe company urged users to ensure their passwords are strong
(CNN) — Customer support tool Zendesk announced in a blog post Friday that it had been hacked earlier this week. The hack affected users of three services that use Zendesk: Pinterest, Tumblr and Twitter.
“We believe that the hacker downloaded email addresses of users who contacted those three customers for support, as well as support email subject lines,” Zendesk said in the post. It did not name the three customers publicly, but subsequent e-mails from Pinterest, Tumblr and Twitter to their customers confirmed the breach.
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