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Option 2 is overwhelmingly likely, IMO. Phishing, password reuse, credential scraping/spamming, and plain old brute force are unbelievably common. That said, t
by zbentley 7y ago
Option 2 is overwhelmingly likely, IMO. Phishing, password reuse, credential scraping/spamming, and plain old brute force are unbelievably common.
That said, the other two options bear investigation too. Just don't spend time looking for a cold breeze from an un-caulked window frame when the screen door is open.
- saurik 7y agoThe true irony, of course, is that the package in question is designed (whether it does or not isn't the point, though I guess if it isn't very good then this becomes all the more humorous) to help prevent people from reusing common passwords or choosing passwords that are easy to brute force ;P... clearly the author should have used this package to select their password that protected the uploads of this package.
- viraptor 7y agoWe don't know that. Their system could've been compromised in some other way and the password captured.