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Mega breach of 16B passwords raises crypto security fears

cointelegraph.com

5 points by pknerd 6 months ago · 5 comments

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baobun 6 months ago

Stop spamming the same fake news.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44370065

tart-lemonade 6 months ago

Original source: https://cybernews.com/security/billions-credentials-exposed-...

BruceEel 6 months ago

This is creating a lot of noise on X. Very thin on actual info. Are the passwords coming from a breach (surely Google, Apple, Fb, wouldn't be storing clear txt passwords?), or phishing? Malware-infected devices?

  • tart-lemonade 6 months ago

    I'm guessing browser credentials harvested by multiple malware infections since there are several independent datasets. Since browser cookies and URLs are present, it seems unlikely this is from a single service or password manager being breached.

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