I’ve been saying for a very long time that you should have different passwords for all your services for the simple reason that if a service gets attacked by hackers, they only get the password for that service. The reality is that most people use variants of a single password on all their services…. If they do that much. Thus they’re wide open to having all their online services pwned by hackers. Here’s a case in point. It has now come to light that millions of Ashely Madison passwords have now been cracked. The details on how this was done can be found here. But the bottom line is that a lot of people are now going to have to change just about every password that they have to protect themselves.
In related news, Amazon and GoDaddy have been sued because they host websites that allow people to search for users of the site. The suit, which the people who filed it want it to be classified as a class action, is asking for at least $3 million for receiving “stolen property” and infliction of emotional distress. I’m not sure if that’s going to fly, but good luck to them. In the same story, security blogger Brian Krebs is being threatened with a libel lawsuit because he blogged about the fact that Ashley Madison employees hacked rival websites. Krebs is sticking by his story and I don’t blame him seeing as there’s an e-mail trail from the last data dump that backs him up on that.
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Ashley Madison Passwords Cracked….. New Lawsuits Emerge…..
I’ve been saying for a very long time that you should have different passwords for all your services for the simple reason that if a service gets attacked by hackers, they only get the password for that service. The reality is that most people use variants of a single password on all their services…. If they do that much. Thus they’re wide open to having all their online services pwned by hackers. Here’s a case in point. It has now come to light that millions of Ashely Madison passwords have now been cracked. The details on how this was done can be found here. But the bottom line is that a lot of people are now going to have to change just about every password that they have to protect themselves.
In related news, Amazon and GoDaddy have been sued because they host websites that allow people to search for users of the site. The suit, which the people who filed it want it to be classified as a class action, is asking for at least $3 million for receiving “stolen property” and infliction of emotional distress. I’m not sure if that’s going to fly, but good luck to them. In the same story, security blogger Brian Krebs is being threatened with a libel lawsuit because he blogged about the fact that Ashley Madison employees hacked rival websites. Krebs is sticking by his story and I don’t blame him seeing as there’s an e-mail trail from the last data dump that backs him up on that.
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