Gawker is in the process of emailing its users about the compromise.

"Unfortunately, sending out that many emails is not a simple process."<p>If Gawker needs help, they can let us know. We finished updating their users ~ 10 hours ago.<p><a href="http://thenextweb.com/media/2010/12/13/digital-good-samaritans-plan-to-warn-gawker-userbase-about-data-hack/" rel="nofollow">http://thenextweb.com/media/2010/12/13/digital-good-samarita...</a>

They answered:<p>"We are in the process of sending out emails to all ~1.5m users affected. Unfortunately, sending out that many emails is not a simple process."<p>I think MailChimp/Campaign Monitor/SendGrind should be able to handle a 1.5M volume quite nicely.

Being Gawker, I'm sure they'll CC every one of their users in the e-mail.

I bet they will get blacklisted on google yahoo and hotmail before they are done. That's a lot of email.

That is a very good question, I am sure Gawker has its hands full trying to fix their leak and make sure that all its employees change their PW first.

Jesus. I just happened to check the reset password with my email address and found out that I do have an account. I have no idea what my password was, now I have to reset everything just to be safe.

It's unfortunate that they still have no way to delete your account, because I wanted to delete mine a year ago and I'm sure they would have a lot fewer emails to send out.

Might just be trying to underplay it and hope it blows over?

Not a total excuse, but they don't have email addresses for all their users (it wasn't a required field).

Then why did I get a (spammy) warning from teamhint@hint.io last night?<p>It would seem to be possible for Gawker to notify their users more quickly.