the discount website livingsocial, is now telling its users to change its passwords. they're also apologizing after that site was hacked. with so many passwords, so many of us try to keep them simple so we remember them. but abc's linzie janis tells us, that's exactly what the hackers want. >> reporter: it's the site where deal-hunters go for discounts on everything from rounds of golf to spa treatments. but this weekend, more than 50 million members of livingsocial are learning they have been hacked. their names, e-mail addresses, birthdays, and encrypted versions of their passwords may have been compromised. john pozadzides tests online security for businesses by seeing how easy it is for him to hack in. >> it's a very attractive target. now that they have all of these passwords and i.d.s, they can try and use them on all the other sites where they are really valuable. >> reporter: that's why livingsocial is requiring users to change their passwords. and if they use the same one on another site, like online banking, it says better change that, too. >> it's so import

this weekend more than 50 million members of livingsocial are learning they have been hacked. addresses, birth dates and encrypted versions of their passwords may have been compromised. john pozzati tests businesses to see how easy it is for him to hack in. >> a very attractive target. now that they have all of these passwords and ids they can try to use them on all the other sites where they are really valuable. >> reporter: that's why livingsocial is requiring users to change their password. if they use the same one on another site, like online banking, it says, better change that too. >> it is so important to use different password on each site that you log in to. that way if one of them is compromised, you aren't compromised across the entire internet. >> reporter: we can also help ourselves by making our passwords more difficult for hackers to decode. >> going from six characters to seven characters could mean the difference between going from days to years to crack them. especially if you throw in some special characters, like an asterisk or period. >> reporter: another

the online deals web site livingsocial has been hacked.says this means the names, e-mails, birth dates and passwords of more than 50 million customers worldwide have told, credit card information.re on the california coast, there's an uncommon dispute brewing-- environmentalist versus environmentalist. it all started with federal plans to create a marine wilderness area north of san francisco. and now, stuck in the middle: oyster eaters. here's john blackstone. >> reporter: at the wild and scenic point reyes earl ray national seashore, oyster lovers have flock to the drakes bay oyster farm for nearly half a century. the farm's owner has gone to court fighting a national park service order to close down. >> we got into this business because we wanted to be oyster farmers, and we find ourselves spending almost all our time in a debate that we hoped we wouldn't have to have. >> reporter: a debate that's pitting northern california environmentalists against northern california foodies. >> those little drakes bay oysters are the best cooking oy

daily deals site, livingsocial, has been hacked.he massive cber attack hitting 50 million users worldwide. the information accessed includes names, e-mail addresses, birthdays, and encrypted passwords. unbelievable. the company is e-mails customers affected telling users to reset their passwords, the credit card another financial information was not accessed in the attack, even so, i would change the password right now if you have not already. on to another technical issue. each and every day, we're constantly hit with information from the schedule for your kids' play dates, landscrapers' phone numbers, spreadsheets for work seeming impossible to make sense of the blizzard of information. today, i hit the streets of new york to ask people if they often feel overwhelmed. here's what they told me. >> well, i'm in i.t. so that's my job; right? so i'm not -- i'm perpetchewablely overrealmed. that's how it is. you cope with it. >> tre's a lot of things i' overwhelmedded abo. >> tell me. >> home, job, world, children, money. >> how do you

livingsocial is working with law enforcement to try to figure out who is responsible for the attack.>> honda is recalling 46,000 of its if fit sport cars because of a software glitch. it affects 2012 and 2013 models. the company says the problem is with the electronic stability control system. honda dealers will update the system for free starting next month. >>> the san francisco man and his sister who survived that ship wreck in the caribbean sea are back in the united states. dan and skate tee suski arrived in miami yesterday after a frightening ordeal in st. l- ucia. earlier this week they went fishing when the boat they were on started taking on water. they waited to be rescued but no one came. they grabbed their life jackets and decided to swim to shore. it took them 14 hours to reach land. >> we could see land off in the distance, and started swimming that direction. and then it would disappear intermittently, as we swam, but we felt the wind behind us and tried to use that as a gauge for directions. >> their ordeal did not stop there. once they reached land they had to hike t

. >>> if you used the livingsocial website, livingsocial.com you can stick change your password on youro-do list today right after watch "today" show. the company says it has been hacked. living social sent out an e-mail to customers on friday saying the hackers got a hold of some personal information but they did not get a hold of any credit card information, which is good. 50 million customers were affected. >>> and finally, there's only one person in the world who isn't annoyed by the question, can you put up this entire watermelon for me? i'm kind of in the mood for watermelon. it is this guy who wields the knife like a third hand taking a whole watermelon and cutting into bite size pieces in just 21 seconds. that is one whole watermelon in 21 seconds. what do you do with that kind of talent? you go straight to the internet. the video already has nearly 3 million views on youtube. either we don't have enough to watch. or people are just having, you know, confusing times with watermelon. >> you know what i want to know is how quickly could he do one of those watermelon baskets that p