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CS02 Password Security

 

The old LinkedIn logo

 

MySpace isn’t the only website to have lost George’s password. When he left school, he used LinkedIn to look for a job.

 

LinkedIn was hacked a few months after he signed up. This time, the hackers got 165 million people’s passwords. George’s password was one of them. 

 

The more he digs, the worse it gets. Dating sites have lost his password, and so have online games and forums.

 

Hackers didn’t need to steal George’s password. It was already common knowledge.