We get it. Maybe you revived your childhood obsession with Star Wars. But don’t extend that fandom to your password, or you could end up welcoming in… the dark side. And by that, we mean anyone who happens to look at the list of 2015’s Worst Passwords. [More]
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Hack Of Cupid Media Dating Site Exposes 42 Million Unencrypted Passwords
By 11.20.13
Usually when there’s a major hack of personal information, at least whichever site or company storing users’ passwords has done some fancy encryption and made it just a wee bit more difficult for the perpetrators to figure it out. But it seems a recent hack of 42 million accounts with Cupid Media dating sites won’t prove tricky for the hackers to decipher, as the passwords were stored in plaintext. Oh, sigh of sighs. [More]
