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Offline paicrai

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over 1 billion passwords hacked and sold by Russians
« on: Tue, 19 August 2014, 03:34:43 »
just a little FYI, they hacked over 400k sites
look it up, there are lots of news articles and interviews about it

edit: (putting a post of mine in here in case you dont wanna scroll down)
this was news from the 6th btw, apparently the haxoring happened on the 4th
the passwords were sold for spam marketing and **** which is weird

captain Cane McCrotchety wanted source http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/05/russian-hackers-stolen-credentials_n_5652812.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/technology/russian-gang-said-to-amass-more-than-a-billion-stolen-internet-credentials.html?_r=0
« Last Edit: Wed, 20 August 2014, 16:18:33 by paicrai »
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Re: over 1 billion passwords hacked and sold by Russians
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 19 August 2014, 03:37:52 »
Oh noes
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Re: over 1 billion passwords hacked and sold by Russians
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 19 August 2014, 03:42:46 »
that wasn't me, i swear. don't hate.
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Re: over 1 billion passwords hacked and sold by Russians
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 19 August 2014, 03:45:17 »
don't care.... keep photos and receipts from the bank.. you'll be safe...   at worst 2-3 weeks max to set your account straight..

so.. if you keep at least 2 bank accounts, it'd be highly unlikely that you'd become illiquid within any span of time.
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Re: over 1 billion passwords hacked and sold by Russians
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 19 August 2014, 03:47:18 »
as long as you make sure to include numbers and symbols in your password, it'll at least take them a while to actually obtain a password, even if they've breached some sort of security measure
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Re: over 1 billion passwords hacked and sold by Russians
« Reply #5 on: Tue, 19 August 2014, 03:51:30 »
my Facebook friends were forced to change their passwords week ago, don't know if there were any relate to this.


My password always have numbers, a symbol, and an upper letter.
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Re: over 1 billion passwords hacked and sold by Russians
« Reply #6 on: Tue, 19 August 2014, 04:01:08 »
All my passwords are 'Password1234' so I should be fine
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Re: over 1 billion passwords hacked and sold by Russians
« Reply #7 on: Tue, 19 August 2014, 04:10:39 »
Be poor like me with nothing worth stealing cept for Ergodox...
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Re: over 1 billion passwords hacked and sold by Russians
« Reply #8 on: Tue, 19 August 2014, 04:21:45 »
Quote from: baldgye on Tue, 19 August 2014, 04:01:08
All my passwords are 'Password1234' so I should be fine
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(...)Whereas back then I wrote about the tyranny of the majority, today I'd combine that with the tyranny of the minorities. These days, you have to be careful of both. They both want to control you. The first group, by making you do the same thing over and over again. The second group is indicated by the letters I get from the Vassar girls who want me to put more women's lib in The Martian Chronicles, or from blacks who want more black people in Dandelion Wine.
I say to both bunches, Whether you're a majority or minority, bug off! To hell with anybody who wants to tell me what to write. Their society breaks down into subsections of minorities who then, in effect, burn books by banning them. All this political correctness that's rampant on campuses is b.s.
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Re: over 1 billion passwords hacked and sold by Russians
« Reply #9 on: Tue, 19 August 2014, 04:24:40 »
this was news from the 6th btw, apparently the haxoring happened on the 4th
the passwords were sold for spam marketing and **** which is weird
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Quote from: Halverson on Fri, 13 March 2015, 04:28:36
I will literally **** you raw paicrai, I hope you're legal by the time I meet you.
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Re: over 1 billion passwords hacked and sold by Russians
« Reply #10 on: Wed, 20 August 2014, 15:10:25 »
Just as a general password note: length > complexity (adding symbols / numbers). Length increases the time of a bruteforce exponentially. Complexity works well against dictionary-based cracking, but otherwise going for a longer password is better.
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Re: over 1 billion passwords hacked and sold by Russians
« Reply #11 on: Wed, 20 August 2014, 15:33:50 »
This not news. Has been happening for years
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Re: over 1 billion passwords hacked and sold by Russians
« Reply #12 on: Wed, 20 August 2014, 15:43:08 »
There's a good chance that Google already had all your information prior to some website getting "hacked" by some vodka enraged 17 year old russian kid in-between his LoL games and WoW botting.
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Re: over 1 billion passwords hacked and sold by Russians
« Reply #13 on: Wed, 20 August 2014, 15:46:14 »
Quote from: paicrai on Tue, 19 August 2014, 03:34:43

look it up, there are lots of news articles and interviews about it


See, this is a bad idea.
If you're posting news, the least you can do is include at least one source.
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Re: over 1 billion passwords hacked and sold by Russians
« Reply #14 on: Wed, 20 August 2014, 16:17:22 »
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Quote from: Halverson on Fri, 13 March 2015, 04:28:36
I will literally **** you raw paicrai, I hope you're legal by the time I meet you.
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Re: over 1 billion passwords hacked and sold by Russians
« Reply #15 on: Wed, 20 August 2014, 17:09:16 »
Quote from: midnightmare on Wed, 20 August 2014, 15:10:25
Just as a general password note: length > complexity (adding symbols / numbers). Length increases the time of a bruteforce exponentially. Complexity works well against dictionary-based cracking, but otherwise going for a longer password is better.

I always go for a lengthy (and easy to remember) passphrase with a short "complexity-meeting" addendum. This works for all solutions that don't have a stupid-short length requirement (c'mon guys 8 max was probably okay for your unix system in the 1970's but that's not gonna cut it today. Everyone who doesn't support at least 14 characters I recommend you stop using.)
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« Reply #16 on: Wed, 20 August 2014, 18:00:38 »
Sites that restrict special characters in passwords grind my gears. Multiple large banking websites still have these policies in place

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Re: over 1 billion passwords hacked and sold by Russians
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« Reply #18 on: Thu, 21 August 2014, 01:44:41 »
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Quote from: Halverson on Fri, 13 March 2015, 04:28:36
I will literally **** you raw paicrai, I hope you're legal by the time I meet you.
👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀 good **** go౦ԁ ****👌 thats ✔ some good👌👌**** right👌👌th 👌 ere👌👌👌 right✔there ✔✔if i do ƽaү so my selｆ 💯  i say so 💯  thats what im talking about right there right there (chorus: ʳᶦᵍʰᵗ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ) mMMMMᎷМ💯 👌👌 👌НO0ОଠＯOOＯOОଠଠOoooᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒ👌 👌👌 👌 💯 👌 👀 👀 👀 👌👌Good ****
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