HipChat was attacked, some data may have been leaked
Posted by Stanislav Furman on April 23, 2017On Monday April 24, 2017 the HipChat Security team has advised their users that there was a security incident detected which affected a server in the HipChat Cloud. The incident lead to a leak of some account information such as names, email addresses and hashed passwords. For a small number of instances (less than 0.05% according to HipChat), messages and content in rooms may have been accessed too.
HipChat automatically reset user passwords for those accouts that they believe were affected and some users were asked to update their passwords manually.
In their statement the HipChat team assured that no other of Atlassian services were affected:
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