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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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[–] RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 108 points 1 year ago (37 children)

Oh no. Now they know the aliased email address, unique password, and that I didn't try very hard to learn spanish.

(please note: this is a joke, I don't see anything about them getting passwords)

[–] stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (35 children)

Something to note here - with AI, if you’re using any sort of heuristic for your password, it’s pretty simple to work out a pretty good set of possibilities which makes brute force even easier and puts you at risk across the board.

Always come up with random passwords that are as random as possible. If there’s a path you took to get to a password, in theory it can be worked backward.

For example I know some people who only change a single letter when changing their passwords which is ultimately trivial to guess if the old password was compromised (hence the need to change the password or the need to proactively work against this possibility)

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