In late 2010, Sean Brooks received three e-mails over a span of 30 hours warning that his accounts on LinkedIn, Battle.net, and other popular websites were at risk. He was tempted to dismiss them as hoaxes—until he noticed they included specifics that weren’t typical of mass-produced phishing scams. The e-mails said that his login credentials for various Gawker websites had been exposed by hackers who rooted the sites’ servers, then bragged about it online; if Brooks used the same e-mail and password for other accounts, they would be compromised too…Read story here.
This isn’t really anything new, in 2007 world renowned security expert Bruce Shneier wrote about it and concludes there is really only two basic schemes for choosing secure passwords: the Schneier scheme and the KCD scheme.
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