Bitly, the URL shortening service, has been the victim of a hack. CEO Mark Josephson posted an "Urgent Security Update" on the Bitly blog today, stating that they found reason to believe that user ...

Bitly published an urgent security warning on Thursday explaining that it suspects that users’ account credentials have been compromised. The company noted that it has no evidence of unauthorized ...

URL shortening service Bitly announced a security breach regarding account credentials today. Here's what you need to know. Bitly announced that account credentials including users email addresses, ...

New York-based link shortening service Bitly just launched a major redesign that emphasizes link sharing similar to Twitter or the once-popular bookmark service Delicious. The old Bitly centered ...

Twitter users using URL shortener Bitly were advised Friday to reset their passwords and secure their account after hackers managed to "compromise" some Bitly account credentials. In a blog post, ...

Bitly has issued a security warning saying that it suspects that user account credentials have been compromised. "We invalidated all credentials within Facebook and Twitter. Although users may see ...

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It seems like an obvious move. Why should Twitter sit by and let third-party companies profit from its massive content output without getting in on the fun? Still, marketing groups like Gnip have been ...

Known for saving tons of virtual space by shortening URLs, Bitly is now unwrapping the user data behind its compressed links. “We have got a lot of valuable data that we’re beginning to mine,” Bitly ...

DataSift – which provides developers and third parties with a platform to access realtime data from Twitter, Facebook and other social sources – is on a bit of a roll. This week it announced it had ...