Softpedia reports that the Telegraph.co.uk was compromised by an anonymous hacker, exposing that its security is so lax that details of its 700,000 registered users can be accessed fairly easily. Someone from Trend Micro advised that:

…if you are a Telegraph subscriber and are concerned about the safety of any other online accounts you may have I would encourage you to change your passwords on those other accounts, and of course on the Telegraph web site.

via Schmoo. People usually have similar passwords for their different accounts, so their details may already be compromised. The problem of course is that Telegraph.co.uk haven’t yet, as far as I can see, informed their users and asked them to change their passwords yet. Many of our readers are unlikely to be Telegraph readers but, you know, just saying.
Update: Telegraph technologists post a response.

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