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Kind of worrying when their source is a “data breach information website” that does advertorials for “the most safe password manager” NordPass. 🤮 The internet of today has become a pile of absolute shit.
We should make a new internet in the dark web, but only invite cool people. No billionaires, narcs nor finks allowed !
No narcs or finks? What about patsies or stoolies? Can we at least have phonies?
I’ll give you one chump and half a busta, but that’s all you’re getting!
I think it's gotten to the point that we. (Collective) Have to start using alias. I know proton for a price gives fake mobile and email address.
I have started using a 5th email to sign up to things. Have an extra number as well. It's beyond a joke really.
Tried to sign up for a budget app and it requires email phone and address.
No. No you don't require any of that. You want that to sell. And you've likely got inadequate protection.
Nobody but my bank job and maybe a few places require all my info.
Oh proton gives mobile too... Ya know I didn't feel like paying for the mail thing as I can have my domain and relay easily but the mobile thing I didn't know.
But I will be honest I didn't see it mentioned on the web, it's already a thing?
Not until a politician or billionaire is harmed by these breaches will we see some action.
They’ll get justice, you’ll get a check in the mail for 3 dollars, after some lawyers win a class action lawsuit.
I don't think so.
Trump himself was victim of credential stuffing. And he's not the only politician or billionaire who has suffered stolen accounts of something.
That seems weird, it's called mother of all breaches, but isn't the result of any one breach. It's just data collection from ordinary breaches with perhaps some credential stuffing in the mix.
Definitely recommend a password vault to anyone that doesn't already use one. After this next hack leaks, I imagine you'll get at least a couple of attempts on your email/phone.
I had an identity theft a few years back, still cleaning up from it. At the time I had the typical set of standard passwords that I would use. I thought they were ok since they were pretty random but I had one for Financial, one for Web Services, etc. so of course when the creds leaked, I suddenly had a bunch of credit card bills I never signed up for..
Since then, every password is unique, my default is 31 characters, and 2-factor for everything possible. Unfortunately I initially settled on LastPass, figured that they had hopefully learned their lesson from their breach years ago. Then it happened again recently and I moved to Bitwarden so that I can eventually migrate to a self-hosted solution.
I've been trying to get my family on board for years but it's still too complex. Non-technical folk still will take the path of least resistance, even when the dangers are right in front of their face. We need something better.
My data has been stolen so often I have free monitoring for the rest of my life.
And everyone should just assume that every account they have will be hacked. Because it already is, they just haven’t found out yet (assume breach).
"The MOAB contains 26 billion records over 3,800 folders, with each folder corresponding to a separate data breach. While this doesn’t mean that the difference between the two automatically translates to previously unpublished data, billions of new records point to a very high probability, the MOAB contains never seen before information." Totaling 12TB.
I've always thought LinkedIn is nothing more than a massive treasure trove of personal information just waiting to be harvested by thieves wanting the entire life and work history of millions of upwardly mobile career focused people.
Work History ok... But entire life... I guess people that used like it's Facebook maybe? 🤔
I honestly wonder if my data wouldn't be safer on some sites, if I skipped two-factor authentication and a recovery email, and simply used my date of birth as a password. At least then, they'd wouldn't be able to leak the phone number or email adress, because I was never forced to give it to them.
It's even more annoying, because you can't easily avoid many of these companies. Eg. for jobs it's really hard to get around using linkedin. I mean, I refuse out of principe and have for years, so my data's a decade out of data, but it's obviously cost me opportunities.
There are almost certainly pictures of me floating around social media, taken without my permission, but tagged by facebook or google just in case I had any fucking privacy. And now thanks to some phones. they also have our finger prints and retinal scans, which will inevitably get leaked sooner rather than later. I pity the poor chumps whose DNA was leaked, that's even worse. Most of that will probably be leaked sooner or later, if it hasn't already, because it turns out a subcontractor used the youtube comment section to communicate between departments.
If I had the technical ability, I would design a two-factor authentication system based on rectal scans.
"Here at OmniCorp we believe all our customers our unique, that's why we believe in securing your data by linking your DNA, phonenumber, social security number, retinal scan and finger print, with a picture of your anus. Bend Over. The Future's Now."
Tencent tops the chart, with 1.5 billion records leaked, followed by Weibo at 504 million and MySpace at 360 million.
MySpace in the news as Top Western Leaker
We just need a free dart monkey or two, it'll be fine.