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23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Eezyville to c/cybersecurity

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They're blaming customers for not having good cybersecurity practices instead of themselves for not having good cybersecurity practices.

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[–] brbposting 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Shouldn’t service providers be hashing the plaintext passwords that show up in dark web leaks to see if matching users reused those passwords?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Wouldn’t really be of any use if they’re doing things right and salt their hashes

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 3 points 10 months ago

They typically do, but that doesn't stop hackers from posting the plaintext.

The real solution is to never store plaintext and to use MFA.