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They actually gave you an extra 2020 RXP if you star their repository (like I did). From the 3975 RXP I could send, it turned to ~85 USD the other day. Multip
by alixaxel 13y ago
They actually gave you an extra 2020 RXP if you star their repository (like I did).
From the 3975 RXP I could send, it turned to ~85 USD the other day.
Multiply that by 1698 and you get $167k. Pretty sure it was a win for them.
- Wingman4l7 13y agoAh, I misread that -- I thought it was if you had contributed to their repo, not simply starred it. I had left it out of the calculation for simplicity's sake as I figured most people would not have done that. Where did you get the 1,698 figure -- was that the number of accounts compromised?
- alixaxel 13y agoIt's not mentioned in the body copy, but if you look at the URL slug it's there: https://github.com/blog/1698-weak-passwords-brute-forced https://github.com/blog/1698-weak-passwords-brute-forced
- borski 13y agoThat's not correct - I surmise that's the ID of the post in the DB. For example: https://github.com/blog/1681-subscribe-to-github-s-explore-email https://github.com/blog/1681-subscribe-to-github-s-explore-e...