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Researcher uncovers one of the biggest password dumps in recent history (arstechnica.com)
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[–] cdf12345 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

About 1/3 had not been previously seen in the have I been pwnd database, that’s really crazy. Either this was a very new or private list of exploited accounts.

[–] EarMaster 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The good thing (for me personally) is that only some very old mail aliases of mine are in this collection. Which means that using a password manager to create and save all my passwords for years does have a positive effect.