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US Credit Union Service Leaks Millions of Records and Passwords in Plain Text (www.hackread.com)
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[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 31 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Why in the hell are government and bank logins literally the least secure logins I have??

My bank doesn't let you set an actual password, only a 6 digit pin, and the only 2FA available is SMS codes. I have better security on Lemmy than I do for my fuckin' financial institution!

[–] InformalTrifle@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Yea, they do seem to be some of the worst offenders

[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Because both industries use such horrible, outdated software and are riddled with so much bureaucracy that no good programmer would want to work there.

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

Sounds like a bit of a chicken & egg scenario to me.