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[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 165 points 11 months ago (36 children)

Obligatory: companies should face harsh penalties for this stuff.

[–] CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago (12 children)

Yes but this wasn't a data breach. This was a data stuffing incident, meaning they took someone else's data dump and tried their email and credentials here.

  • never use the same username and password in two or more places
  • always use MFA, a hard token if you can like a yubikey
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