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Re:Slack was hacked by Sami_Lehtinen on Friday March 27, 2015 @03:05PM (#9278390)
I still wonder what value does password leak have. I changed my password, my old password was: DV1wn3yHk6W-8m9lZNo_ now you all know it, so what? I don't care, I believe you don't care either. On the other hand, if they were after valuable data, they had access to database and the got what they wanted. So the password is much less valuable than the other stuff they might have wanted. Like chat logs which might contain credentials to other services.
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Re:Slack was hacked by bentcorner on Friday March 27, 2015 @03:24PM (#9278481)
Right, but many people use the same password for their email account as they do for many other services.
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Re:Slack was hacked by CameronBanga on Friday March 27, 2015 @04:46PM (#9278881)
Because I'm sure everyone uses a long, complex, and unique password on Slack. So nothing to worry about, everyone.
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Re:Slack was hacked by jessaustin on Friday March 27, 2015 @10:13PM (#9280190)
If Slack data isn't important, then it would have been fine to use one's default low-value password, right? So now some attacker has thousands of copies of the word "dragon".
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