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A comment on Bob's wife Carla lends a speedy mind. Parent comment
Since the majority of people still have the security setup of "one or two emails for most of the things and a set of 2-3 close passwords"
The moment you have a leak of 200 000 000 email password pairs the whole industry is in trouble not only the site that leaked them.
Currently there is semi random brute forcing - just taking already cracked lists and mutating them to guess the password.
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Since the majority of people still have the security setup of "one or two emails for most of the things and a set of 2-3 close passwords"
The moment you have a leak of 200 000 000 email password pairs the whole industry is in trouble not only the site that leaked them.
Currently there is semi random brute forcing - just taking already cracked lists and mutating them to guess the password.