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Re:500M of “Have I been Pwned” hashes broken by bpicolo on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @11:19AM (#16801983)
> It's a bug with their system

Confident about that? It's certainly not the only service I get break in attempts on, fwiw

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Re:500M of “Have I been Pwned” hashes broken by ReverseCold on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @11:45AM (#16802227)
Well first of all, someone else knowing your username should not be able to lock you out of your account. So even if it isn't a bug it's bad design.

It looks like you can still sign in even if your account is "locked" which further adds to the theory that it is a bug.

Here are a few threads with a bunch of "me too"s. [0][1]

[0] https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/forums/battle-royale/roya... [1] https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/forums/battle-royale/roya...

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