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Dear Scribd user,

Earlier this week, Scribd's Operations team discovered and blocked
suspicious activity on Scribd's network that appears to have been a
deliberate attempt to access the passwords of registered Scribd
users.

Because of the way Scribd securely stores passwords, our security
investigation indicates that less than 1% of our users were
potentially affected by the attack. Unfortunately, our security
investigation shows that you are among this small percentage of users
whose password may have been compromised.

As a precaution to protect your data, we have decided to implement a
password reset for your account. In addition, if you have used your
Scribd password on any other services, you should consider the
password potentially compromised and change your password on those
services immediately.

We do not believe that any content stored on Scribd was accessed. We
also have no evidence that any payment information or any other Scribd
data was accessed. We believe that the extent of the compromise was
usernames, emails and encrypted passwords of a subset of our users.

To err on the side of safety, we have disabled your Scribd password.
We strongly encourage you to change your password on any other
services where you might have re-used the same password. To choose a
new Scribd password, you can use this link to send a password reset
email:
http://www.scribd.com/password/email_alert

We take our responsibility to protect our users' data extremely
seriously and constantly improve our security infrastructure and
policies. Following this incident, we have implemented numerous
additional safeguards. Not only have we taken steps to address the
specific issues that led to this incident, but we are conducting a
comprehensive security review and are implementing more general
measures to enhance security proactively.

Lastly, we would like to sincerely apologize for our failure to live
up to our users' expectations in this instance and for the
inconvenience of asking you to reset your password. We’re incredibly
disappointed that this happened and are committed to doing everything
we can to prevent it from ever happening again. We will work harder
than ever to ensure that we deserve the trust that our users place in
us.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us through our
help and support website, where we will also be posting updates
related this announcement. Thank you for reading and thanks for using
Scribd.

The Scribd Team

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