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Originally Posted by ladida
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Originally Posted by DWB
Looks to me like someone has a bone to pick with the guy / his company.
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Nah. He's just big enough to make it into the news. Truth is that that site was breached for years, but noone cared. Most of the companies don't care even if they know it, until it hits the news. This consortium crap is probably some kids that want the fame after someone posted DP info elsewhere. Seen this MO far too many times. People just don't care until it hits the news.
Swiftwill is on the case now, i'd like to see it happen now. |
Most of the sites on the net get breached at one point or another, especially pron sites. But yeah vast majority of cases won't ever hit the public news, either the breach was not done by some attention seeking kids or the site was not big enough.
But a good reminder that it's not safe to use the same password in any place that you consider important, or the same email everywhere. And storing full cc info doesn't sound like a good practice.
And there do seem to be some common patterns in the recent news around this subject, manwin.. anonymous...