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It would be really interesting if a hacker found a way to harvest _new_ passwords and faked a huge data breach to get millions of people to change their passwor
by cscharenberg 12y ago
It would be really interesting if a hacker found a way to harvest _new_ passwords and faked a huge data breach to get millions of people to change their passwords. Threatening fake data breaches if not paid a ransom could be the next profitable hacker market. It would probably work a few times, and certainly muddy up the waters for both organizations and people. Imagine trying to figure out how to respond when 10 major groups have a data breach per week, but 2 of those are real and the rest are fakes. Chaos and massive frustration.
- kolev 12y agoExactly my point! I've always wondered why journos give the wrong advice to people and why people stupidly trust them and not a technical authority on the subject. At the end of the day, all companies now reset passwords if necessary, so, people should wait for the companies to tell them what to do, and not some journo in the business of clickbaiting and scaremongering.