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threeganzi@sh.itjust.works to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 7 months ago

Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users

www.bleepingcomputer.com

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Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users

www.bleepingcomputer.com

threeganzi@sh.itjust.works to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 7 months ago
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  • 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    What user data do people have on ia?

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      Haven’t looked much into the breach, but probably the biggest issue is passwords. If unencrypted, and a user uses the same generic password for their email or bank or whatever, that possess a serious concern.

      This highlights the importance of not reusing passwords

      Edit: looks like passwords were hashed with bcrypt, which is really quite excellent. Very unlikely anybody is getting actual passwords from this leak.

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        If someones reusing their passwords then their passwords will likely be found very easily with rainbow tables.

        • 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@lemm.ee
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          Rainbows tables are mostly irrelevant lately. Well at least if u follow proper salt and proper reccommendationa.

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            Which bcrypt does, since it generates a unique salt per-password.

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          If your password is long/complex enough, it ain’t going to be on a rainbow table. But yeah.

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            People reusing passwords probably also aren’t using long and complex passwords.

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              why not? they may have one long pass that they remember and use for everything, can’t be bothered to remember more of them.

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                That’s probably correct, horse battery staple.

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        I’d hope that passwords would be unencrypted, really they should be hashed ;)

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      Hopefully they didn’t store to much financial info from donations, otherwise I am a bit coocked…

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        7 months ago

        This is why monero should be the future.

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