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Old 02-10-09, 10:12 PM   #1
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Default *urgent* anyone else heard about the password leak?

Just had a text from a work mate telling me to change all passwords if they are the same as my hotmail one ASAP. Apparetly there has been a set of documents leaked which contain all usernames and passwords for hotmail. Not sure what to make of it tbh, anyone else heard anything?
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Old 02-10-09, 10:16 PM   #2
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Default Re: *urgent* anyone else heard about the password leak?

doubt they store the password as cleartext in their DB, usualy it will be hashed
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Old 02-10-09, 10:18 PM   #3
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Default Re: *urgent* anyone else heard about the password leak?

this bloke is a pretty big geek, he's always talking about the side of PC's I know nothing about. You echo my initial reaction but then again other than OS based software I know nothing about a computer.
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Old 02-10-09, 10:32 PM   #4
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Default Re: *urgent* anyone else heard about the password leak?

I change my passwords for everything every other month anyway. Because I've been the victim of some serious ID theft and fraud, I got into the habit. Luckily I have a really good memory for things like this as I have no plan for passwords. I literally change them to use something that I can see, have seen or heard that day, something completely random and pick numbers off my lotto tickets at random to add to them. No-one would stand a chance of guessing any! The only one I don't change is the one for this forum as I don't see the point.
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Old 02-10-09, 11:08 PM   #5
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Default Re: *urgent* anyone else heard about the password leak?

Urban myth started by the actions of "Croll" against Twitter.

Nothing more than a social engineering exercise, which is why I refuse to refer to "Croll" with their self appointed name.
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Old 02-10-09, 11:53 PM   #6
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bbarstewards.mn **** em all
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Old 03-10-09, 08:49 AM   #7
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Default Re: *urgent* anyone else heard about the password leak?

Well someone might get into my facebook, maybe log in on here as me and on to bikersoracle as me.

not much info about me on the winternet anyway
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Old 03-10-09, 10:02 AM   #8
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Urban myth started by the actions of "Croll" against Twitter.

Nothing more than a social engineering exercise, which is why I refuse to refer to "Croll" with their self appointed name.
thats all I could find anything about when i googled it, so im happy not to wrry... for now lol
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Old 05-10-09, 03:38 PM   #9
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Default Re: *urgent* anyone else heard about the password leak?

I discounted this as normally companies only store a hash of the password using something similar to sha1 encryption.

So, imagine my surprise when I read:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8291268.stm
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Old 05-10-09, 03:40 PM   #10
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oh no

I found a pool of liquid under my password this morning

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