LivingSocial: Hackers accessed 50 million customers accounts District-based LivingSocial acknowledged Friday that the company had recently experienced a cyber-attack that accessed personal names, email addresses and birth dates - and even encrypted passwords. The daily deals company said the attack impacted about 50 million of its customers worldwide. That includes LivingSocial customers in North America, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Ireland and Malaysia and its LetsBonus users in Southern Europe and Latin America. Those customers had data stored on a company server that was compromised, according to Andrew Weinstein, the company spokesman. LivingSocial is requiring all of those customers to reset their passwords. The old passwords were encrypted, making them difficult for hackers to exploit, Weinstein said. LivingSocial's other Asian subsidiaries, Ticketmonster and Ensogo, located in Korea, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines, keep information on a different set of servers and were not affected. The hackers did not compromise customer credit card information or the financial information of its merchants, according to an email to employees and customers from LivingSocial chief executive Tim O'Shaughnessy. The hack was first reported Friday by All Things D. A LivingSocial spokesman confirmed the attack, which follows breaches in other big online companies such as Zappos and LinkedIn.