Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users
Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users
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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.
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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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This is why monero should be the future.
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