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Scraped data of 2.6 million Duolingo users released on hacking forum (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

we were talking about password changes, not creation though

Guessing someone’s password with no prior history vs with an “averaged” prior history of the world/some large dataset are two different sized sets.

If you’ve got a feel for how the majority of people are changing their passwords, guessing those passwords is significantly easier when compared to traditional brute force

Edit:

Passphrases are fairly good too but I want to see some real word examples of AI trained on some password dumps to see how much better it performs in comparison to traditional brute force and through targeted info gathering. I’m curious to see if there’s any user friendly techniques that’d work against AI specifically and it’s ability to find patterns most people wouldn’t pick up on