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Scraped data of 2.6 million Duolingo users released on hacking forum (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The scraped data of 2.6 million DuoLingo users was leaked on a hacking forum, allowing threat actors to conduct targeted phishing attacks using the exposed information.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hmm, a single point of access for every password you have? I don't see the problem...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The thing is the average person either can't or can't be bothered to remember even a dozen actually secure passwords, so they fall back to a couple of simple derivations of a common password, meaning each and every site a user signs up on represents an additional single point of failure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's a good point.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Lucky until we get actual quantum computing, it's not worth the years on a supercomputer to crack a single stolen set of encrypted passwords.