Social sharing service Buffer has been hacked, pauses all shares temporarily

Erm... you posted a link to the current story, not to a different one.

I don't have any experience with Buffer, but it's refreshing to see the HN community react (mostly) with concern and support.

I hope you guys recover fully.

I'm confused. I should be revoking access for both Twitter and FB or...? (I haven't had any spam posts...yet)

At this point, they've disabled all sharing so you're probably okay. Just be extra vigilant until the issue is fully resolved.

Definitely feel sorry for the Buffer team. They're great guys and built a great service—getting social media security right is hard.

Though this does confirm that there's some value in my latest project of making your social media profiles more secure: http://socialsecurity.io

thank god it was spam, and not pr0n. also thank god I use hootsuite.

I got an email stating.

All updates have been paused.

Passwords and payment information have NOT been compromised.

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It would be sorted out in a bit.