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Massive data dump containing millions of passwords sparks security alert: Is your data safe?

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Massive data dump containing millions of passwords sparks security alert: Is your data safe?

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TechnologyEnglish · 2 years ago

News of the dataset comes from Troy Hunt, operator of the Have I Been Pwned service used to identify emails that appear in data breaches.

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And pass phrases are faster to type and with less typos even though they need more characters than passwords to be the same secure.

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