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.

  • @deft
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    910 months 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@lemmy.world
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      1410 months ago

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

      • @SleveMcDichael@programming.dev
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        10 months 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.

      • @Chriskmee@lemm.ee
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        1010 months 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.