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Scraped data of 2.6 million Duolingo users released on hacking forum (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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The scraped data of 2.6 million DuoLingo users was leaked on a hacking forum, allowing threat actors to conduct targeted phishing attacks using the exposed information.

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[โ€“] SleveMcDichael@programming.dev 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The thing is the average person either can't or can't be bothered to remember even a dozen actually secure passwords, so they fall back to a couple of simple derivations of a common password, meaning each and every site a user signs up on represents an additional single point of failure.

[โ€“] demlet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That's a good point.