Date: December 2010
Affected: 1.3 million
With blogs like Gizmodo, Jezebel and Jalopnik in its stable,Gawker Media is used to covering the news, not making it. But that's what happened in December 2010 when a group of hackers calling themselves "Gnosis" took responsibility for releasing a 500-megabyte file with the usernames,emails and passwords of up to 1.3 million registered users. "We went after Gawker because of their outright arrogance," the group said at the time.
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