The scraped data of 2.6 million DuoLingo users was leaked on a hacking forum, allowing threat actors to conduct targeted phishing attacks using the exposed information.

  • hatter
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    291 year ago

    Just use a password manager and a unique, long, random generated password for every site. There’s no need or reason to know the password to anything other than your password manager and your primary email.

    • @[email protected]
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      91 year ago

      in like a decade the use of a password manager will be a bad idea. i don’t know how but it will be.

      • @demlet
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        141 year ago

        Hmm, a single point of access for every password you have? I don’t see the problem…

        • @[email protected]
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          1 year ago

          The thing is the average person either can’t or can’t be bothered to remember even a dozen actually secure passwords, so they fall back to a couple of simple derivations of a common password, meaning each and every site a user signs up on represents an additional single point of failure.

          • @demlet
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            21 year ago

            That’s a good point.

        • @[email protected]
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          101 year ago

          Lucky until we get actual quantum computing, it’s not worth the years on a supercomputer to crack a single stolen set of encrypted passwords.