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Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 2 months ago by threeganzi@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Haven't looked much into the breach, but probably the biggest issue is passwords. If unencrypted, and a user uses the same generic password for their email or bank or whatever, that possess a serious concern.

This highlights the importance of not reusing passwords

Edit: looks like passwords were hashed with bcrypt, which is really quite excellent. Very unlikely anybody is getting actual passwords from this leak.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I'd hope that passwords would be unencrypted, really they should be hashed ;)