CHANGE ALL PASSWORDS
what is everyone thought about the recent 16 billions password leak?
https://cyberguy.com/privacy/19-billion-passwords-leaked-online-protect/
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I don’t have anything for them to steal.
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Holy crab, this is bad.
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I always use Password69!
The added exclamation mark is for extra security. Unhackable.
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It’s not that world anymore friend I appreciate your older but now you don’t need anything worth stealing they could still steal your identity and accounts and use them for not so nice purposes never mind steal anything it’s best to be safe and change it then again tis your choice buddy at the end of the day just thought I’d say mate
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Sadly this is pretty much every day of the week regardless of a data breach or leak…24/7 around the world people do this and I’ve had family or friends burned even with so called protections in place. Sometimes you can recover but mostly just a kick in the groin and move on. Great YouTube channel from a guy that goes after Indian scammers
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There is still a hope!
Who is not using a password manager, please start now.
Where available, always use 2FA.
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to be honest “we” all have been leaked of some sort or other. be silly to think we haven’t???
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I was talking about this on another thread a few days ago but it doesn’t matter what you do to protect yourself against hackers, once those quantum computers are more mainstream nothing will be safe ever again.
maybe in a hundred years but you’re good for now.
wrong site, my bad
edit: man, i’ve been away from this for a bit it seems. i need to brush ip on nefarious activity.
Idk about 100 years but it’ll still be awhile for sure. Super computers are still able to do the same thing though
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You are too pessimistic.
I’m pretty sure there will be a solution. The whole electronic communication is based on cryptography (SSL and other certificates, etc.) after all…
And at this point I can assure you that it matters a lot, if you do use a password manager and not reuse passwords.
For sensitive sites, make sure you enable 2FA.
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I scored a 13 on the breach-o-meter. Does that mean they will login and pay the maxed out accounts?
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I’m nowhere near smart enough to make the judgement myself that’s just what the computer scientists say about it. I am a little pessimistic tho lol not a fan of the AI route everything’s going. It’s just gonna be a never ending battle of whos AI and super computer is more capable then everything will be hacked again cycle repeats
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Well, I’m hoping that it will be a message (one another now) enough clear to consider web3 and declare web2.0 dead lmao
In 2025 using login/pass hosted on a server is just suicide from my point of view, everything should be done client-side and on client-pull, ONLY. Joe already quoted a good introduction to this change of paradigm, before switching fully.
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Dang that’s unsettling…
Would it be pertinent for the websites that are effected to reset all their clients passwords, forcing people to create new ones?
I would rather get an e-mail telling me that my password was reset for security purposes than be blindsided that my identity had been stolen.
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Watch out for your kids shit too.
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Can you provide a link?
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the only danger in this dump is for folks who reuse passwords across different sites. this dump is actually a compilation of old breaches and nothing new so not really a concern for most of us anyway.
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One sec I’ll look
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