I would've liked to see an exact explanation of how the editor's account was compromised, because it's important to know whether or not thenextweb and other sites were compromised through a default-account-setting or because all of these sites happened to have an account with the same vulnerable password. Or did the hacker just attempt a brute attack against a huge swath of sites, and thenextweb and others were just a few that fell to it?