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I've done identity for bigger places that have credential attacks all the time. There's sophisticated attackers that are aware of each victim's location and can
by hibikir 3y ago
I've done identity for bigger places that have credential attacks all the time. There's sophisticated attackers that are aware of each victim's location and can get through geolocation anomaly detection, and there's such thing as hitting the jackpot through lucky credential stuffing, so any check for failed attempts doesn't hit. It's not possible to detect everything. There's a whole lot things a serious place will do to detect naive attacks though, so a whole lot of volume there fails. It might even be good to let an obvious stuffer keep attacking you, and help us mark the accounts they have working credentials for, so we can instantly lock them and ask for password changes.
I have no idea of the actual sophistication of the attackers here though: It's way too common to see big companies that have paid no attention to prevention, and therefore will only notice an attack if it becomes an accidental denial of service attack. Maybe 23andme are sophisticated and only the worst shared passwords got breached, or maybe they have minimal security.