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

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Lee Duna ( @throws_lemy@lemmy.nz )

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

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Lee Duna ( @throws_lemy@lemmy.nz )

TechnologyEnglish • 1 year 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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It’d be dictionary length to the fifth power, not times five.

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