Poor Passwords, Poor Security
Last December, hackers stumbled upon a treasure trove: Security problems with the site of social networking application maker RockYou allowed anyone to access a massive list of passwords belonging to its users.
Hackers discussed the site’s weak security extensively in an online forum. The conversations were found by security firm Imperva, which warned the company. Not, however, before one of the hackers made off with nearly 33 million unencrypted passwords from the site. The thief posted the list of passwords, without usernames, to the forum and mocked the company for the lax security around the credentials.
“Pretty nice list with plain text passwords,” the hacker wrote, according to news reports. “It’s so lame, and I’m sure that more than half does work for MySpace and other sites.”
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