Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2019

I just went and looked at the pastes HIBP has collected since the clock ticked over to 2019 and found 20 of them already: Digging further, I found over a thousand pastes with "Spotify" in the title. And why would someone "hack" (I use the term loosely because they literally logged in with the correct username and password) Spotify accounts?

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Hacking Passwords Accountability Data breaches 223

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

One of my contacts pointed me to a popular hacking forum where the data was being socialised, complete with the following image: As you can see at the top left of the image, the root folder is called "Collection #1" hence the name I've given this breach. pic.twitter.com/6ZKcGHfHhq — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) January 13, 2019.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 20, 2020

Twitter was hacked this week. We need to start treating them that way, and that means both requiring them to do a better job on security and breaking them up. Class breaks are endemic to computerized systems, and they're not something that we as users can defend against with better personal security.

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