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Open Season on Passwords - ztirffritz - 06-07-2012
LinkedIn: Hacked
eHarmony: Hacked
and now, add to the list:
Last.FM: Hacked
This is getting frustrating...and old.
Re: Open Season on Passwords - decay - 06-07-2012
open season on website insecurity!
Re: Open Season on Passwords - Spiff - 06-07-2012
Huh. Guess I was a lucky one and did not have my LinkedIn account hacked. Just changed the password anyway...
My wife would kill me if I had an eHarmony account...
Re: Open Season on Passwords - M A V I C - 06-07-2012
My LI account wasn't hacked either. What's eHarmony?
Re: Open Season on Passwords - space-time - 06-07-2012
M A V I C wrote:
My LI account wasn't hacked either. ...
how would you know? they stola a database with passwords. Now they try to decode those passwords. better changes the password anyway
Re: Open Season on Passwords - M A V I C - 06-07-2012
space-time wrote:
[quote=M A V I C]
My LI account wasn't hacked either. ...
how would you know? they stola a database with passwords. Now they try to decode those passwords. better changes the password anyway
'cause I got the database and checked for my password
Re: Open Season on Passwords - decay - 06-07-2012
i changed my last.fm password just to be safe...
Re: Open Season on Passwords - tenders - 06-07-2012
I recognize that the site should have been better protected, but I'm having a hard time understanding how a huge list of passwords affects anyone's security.
How does knowing that some user chose the password "macs4ever" put anything at risk without knowing the specific user id? Were those disclosed too?
It's like finding a truck full of keys. Without knowing where the locks are, they're useless.
Re: Open Season on Passwords - M A V I C - 06-07-2012
tenders wrote:
I recognize that the site should have been better protected, but I'm having a hard time understanding how a huge list of passwords affects anyone's security.
How does knowing that some user chose the password "macs4ever" put anything at risk without knowing the specific user id? Were those disclosed too?
It's like finding a truck full of keys. Without knowing where the locks are, they're useless.
Last I read, it's not known yet if the hacker got the usernames too, or just the passwords. It's "likely" they got it all.
Re: Open Season on Passwords - Dazed & Confused (Mobile) - 06-07-2012
Maybe the hackers will let me know my password for LI...
D & C