A massive online data breach may risk thousands of New Zealanders

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The email addresses and hashed passwords of about 2.6 million clients of Australian Nitro PDF programming were distributed on the web.

New Zealand digital protection guard dog Cert said on Saturday it had reached a large number of New Zealanders to caution them their online security may have been imperiled by the huge online information penetrate.

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It said among the email tends to utilized by individuals who enlisted for the product were in excess of 4000 that end with .nz.

Cert said it reached those people, however other New Zealanders with email tends to finishing off with .com might be influenced as well.

Nitro PDF clients were cautioned to change their Nitro PDF secret word quickly “to something long, solid and extraordinary”, and if a similar secret word had been utilized for whatever else to change that too.

-RNZ
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