'Scribd' The world's largest online library, has been hacked.

Scribd ,the world's largest online library, has been hacked in a recent attack and hacker potentially able to compromise general user information, which includes usernames, emails, and encrypted passwords of partial database. "Even though this information was accessed, the passwords stored by Scribd are encrypted, we believe that the passwords of less than 1 percent of our users were potentially compromised by this attack," the company stated.

 They emailed every user whose password was potentially compromised with details of the situation and instructions for resetting their password. "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 email addresses and passwords of registered Scribd users." Scribd team said.

Users who want to check if their account information may have been accessed are advised to visit the following link: http://www.scribd.com/password/check.

Following this incident, Scribd have implemented numerous additional safeguards.The company have not only taken steps to address the specific issues that led to this incident, but are also conducting a comprehensive security review and are implementing more general measures to proactively enhance security."