Slack has been hacked?

Posted by jpatapoff on Friday January 30, 2015 @08:51PM
from the self-post dept.

We use Slack at Clyp for team communication. I assumed that security would be one of their top priorities, but it appears that's not the case. Looks like "Elon Musk" and "Cal Henderson" have access to all of our internal communications. Great. http://i.imgur.com/zw91KHM.png

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Re:Slack has been hacked? by jpatapoff on Friday January 30, 2015 @09:48PM (#8975692)

Turns out it was a prank. Can't delete my post, otherwise I would.

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Re:Slack has been hacked? by sciurus on Friday January 30, 2015 @09:01PM (#8975596)

My first guess is that your coworkers have changed their names and avatars on Slack and are playing a prank on you.

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Re:Slack has been hacked? by jpatapoff on Friday January 30, 2015 @09:06PM (#8975612)

When you modify a name/avatar on Slack, the change is made globally it affects all previous messages, etc. There are only 4 of us that use Slack, and you can see our user handles on the left under "DIRECT MESSAGES". No one is using the handle 'Elon Musk' or 'Cal Henderson'.

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Re:Slack has been hacked? by troygoode on Friday January 30, 2015 @09:18PM (#8975628)

They can use whatever name/avatar they want if they use the Slack API.

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Re:Slack has been hacked? by jpatapoff on Friday January 30, 2015 @09:35PM (#8975663)

Looks like this was it :(

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