(WIRED)  -- Gawker Media, the blog powerhouse built by Nick Denton, has been hacked. After bringing the company's websites to a standstill Sunday, one or more hackers operating under the name Gnosis released a 500 MB file apparently containing Gawker's source code, commenter and staff passwords, and internal conversations between the company's employees. The email addresses and passwords of hundreds of thousands of Gawker users have been compromised, the hackers said. It's the worst security breach in New York-based Gawker's eight-year history, and a wake-up call to all web publishers. "We're deeply embarrassed by this breach," Gawker said in a blog post Sunday afternoon.
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Hackers release file containing Gawker's source code, commenter and staff passwords
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Email addresses of Gawker users have been compromised
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Hackers part of group Anonymous, who's campaign is called Operation Payback
Still, @placeholder's choice of targets and their foul language puts them firmly in the net's "griefer" culture.