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June 7, 2016 06:00 pm
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Password Re-user? Get Ready to Get Busy
Security reporter Brian Krebs writes: In the wake of megabreaches at some of the Internet's most-recognized destinations, don't be surprised if you receive password reset requests from numerous companies that didn't experience a breach: Some big name companies -- including Facebook and Netflix -- are in the habit of combing through huge data leak troves for credentials that match those of their customers and then forcing a password reset for those users. Netflix.com, for example, sent out a notification late last week to users who made the mistake of re-using their Netflix password at Linkedin, Tumblr or MySpace. All of three of those breaches are years old, but the scope of the intrusions (more than a half billion usernames and passwords leaked in total) only became apparent recently when the credentials were posted online at various sites and services.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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