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Massive Data Breach.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,608 ✭✭✭thereiver


    This can be used to hack into government data systems or user finance bank accounts so so many people use email to set up apps with pin no,s a or passwords It's best for anyone to change passwords if they use Gmail or apple email on phones laptops or PCs use a string password nos letters ten symbols no s like id56Now46//+94C, OhhJ12



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,183 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    We’re asking people to have all these different, complex passwords, and it’s just not practical. To cope, people re-use passwords or write them down. Companies know this and it’s why we’re seeing these alternative authentication methods that use biometrics, revolving codes, and so on. The old advice to have long complex passwords, and keep changing them, just isn’t going to work in a world where half the websites you use want you to create an account.

    You have to prioritise e.g. if the password for my Boards account has been leaked, I don’t really care. Maybe I can reset it by email, but if I lost this account entirely, I’d be OK. More serious accounts like banking are different, of course, and these days you need more than a password to get in to them. Revenue for example has the 2-factor method that requires a 6-digit code (TOTP) that you set up.

    Is it safe to get in to my bank accounts with Touch ID or Face ID on my iPhone? AIB thinks so, and they’re obviously basing that on security research and studies. They trust Apple’s biometrics to identify me sufficiently well for general purposes. If that was compromised, it wouldn’t mean someone could suck my accounts dry: that has an extra, different level of security first.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,488 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    Odd its not bigger news or on any of the other sites.

    If you read the source article it says it's not old database (basically it's new) but does contain duplicate and old information from previous hacks. Which seems a little contradictory. Toms is reporting it's Google apple etc data, but the article it links to does not say that. In fact it says the opposite.

    I'm left wondering is this actually new at all.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,477 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Is a password breach such a big deal anymore? Two factor authorisation keeps the important stuff safe.

    Just to be sure though I'm changing my password from Password to Password2



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,670 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    i have the solution folks, send me a few quid, and i ll reveal all!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,319 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    So, those passwords must have been sent in plaintext or unencrypted in storage to be of use. I would hardly think Google/Apple/Meta would get away with that lack of security today? Unless they were leaked some other way.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,282 ✭✭✭Meesared


    They were, its a collection of previous breaches, its nothing new.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,389 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    I've had trouble logging into my various accounts and on one it said my password was compromised . Oh fcuk



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,389 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    When the first, I hear of it is on Boards I 'm worried



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,319 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    Just make sure any account linked to stuff that's important, like banking, is safe as best you can, change passwords, use 2fa, have a separate email account for banking, and treat the rest as stuff you can live without. Also, I'd start thinking about leaving minimal info in the cloud and social networks for bad actors to steal and use against you.

    Post edited by SuperBowserWorld on


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,608 ✭✭✭thereiver


    This is a serious hack anyone who has an android phone has a Gmail account that's billions of users who maybe be vunetable to hacks or phishing or id theft



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