LivingSocial hacked; 50 million affected

Daily-deals company LivingSocial acknowledged Friday that it had experienced a cyberattack that accessed the names, e-mail addresses and birth dates — and even encrypted passwords — of 50 million customers worldwide. The company said credit card information wasn't taken but it asks its customers to change their passwords.

The cyberattack affected LivingSocial customers in North America, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Ireland and Malaysia and its LetsBonus users in Southern Europe and Latin America.

The Washington, D.C.-based site, owned in part by Amazon, claims around 70 million customers worldwide. The company's divisions in the Philippines, South Korea, Indonesia, and Thailand remain unaffected because they are hosted on different servers.

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