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 ...

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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, ...

Bitly is announcing that it has raised $63 million in additional funding from Spectrum Equity — a deal that gives the growth equity firm a majority stake in Bitly. Founded in 2008, the company was ...

In a statement on its blog today, Bitly has announced that CEO Peter Stern has stepped down as CEO. The reason is that Stern is to “pursue other interests”; further details aren’t known at this time.

Don't call it "link shortening." That was the old Bitly, back when one of the most pressing concerns in digital was sharing links too long for Twitter's character count. And back when Bitly was the ...

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We use URL shortening services so often these days we're seldom even aware of them. Until, that is, one of them fails. Today, one of the most popular of these, Bitly, stopped working for some users.

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Hackers are using the custom shortened links of real media outlets, including MSNBC and Fox News, to send readers to fake news sites instead. In a blog post published Monday, Websense Security Labs ...