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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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

wow thanks, I always remembering hearing people talk about passphrases being better, and saw bitwarden add a feature to generate them, I just went with it.

But given I have no interest in remembering these pass phrases, it would make sense to use generated passwords vs passphrases as you said. Good thing my effort to transition to pass phrases was recent and wasn't done too much yet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Hah, honestly either one is better than just having the same password on every site. You are all good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The rise of a pass phrase is more to do with mitigating the human risk in security which is people using memorable passwords. So a passphrase is typically easier to remember. That's the theory anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hah, honestly either one is better than just having the same password on every site. You are all good.