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Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 11 months ago

Massive data dump containing millions of passwords sparks security alert: Is your data safe?

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Massive data dump containing millions of passwords sparks security alert: Is your data safe?

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to

Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 11 months ago

News of the dataset comes from Troy Hunt, operator of the Have I Been Pwned service used to identify emails that appear in data breaches.

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I had to do that recently, ended up being easier to just temporarily change the password to something short on a pc, then change it back after.

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