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Re: Two billion email addresses were exposed

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Post by pessimizer »

jimmar wrote: post #50

I respect Troy Hunt's work. I searched for my email address on https://haveibeenpwned.com/ , and my email was in the latest breach data set. But the site does not give me any way to take action. haveibeenpwned knows what passwords were breached, the people who breached the data knows what passwords were breached, but there does not seem to be any way for _me_, the person affected, to know what password were breached.…

> But the site does not give me any way to take action.

It gives you as much information as you should be given. Any more information would just be spreading around the hacked dataset.

It does give you an awful lot of information about the specific hacks that exposed your information, and what was the content of that exposure. You may have been owned, but the way you were owned doesn't really matter e.g. I don't care that my firstname.lastname@gmail.com was exposed as being me. I may not care that my username@yahoo.com account was exposed as being username at archive.org. If that's it, I can keep using them. But a lot of hacks are a lot worse, and you might have to rearrange things or close them down. haveibeenpwned gives you enough information to make all those decisions.

Also, your second paragraph seems to imply that the site doesn't tell you if passwords were compromised for an email address. It definitely does by identifying the hack and describing its extent. You don't need the actual password to know that you need to change it. Likely, the hacked site forced you to change it anyway.

Re: Two billion email addresses were exposed

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

zahlman wrote: post #141
AlienRobot wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

my password: 2,408 password: 46,628,605 your password: 609 good password: 22 long password: 2 secure password: 317 safe password: 29 bad password: 86 this password sucks: 1 i hate this website: 16 username: 83,569 my username: 4 your username: 1 let me login: 0 admin: 41,072,830 abcdef: 873,564 abcdef1: 147,103 abcdef!: 4,109 abcdef1!: 1,401 123456: 179,863,340 hunter2: 50,474 correct horse battery staple: 384 Correc…

> all your base are belong to us: 1 Only 1, really?

Because of the spaces.

Without spaces, it's 681.

Re: Two billion email addresses were exposed

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Post by Tallain »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #176
eyeundersand wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+1 for Bitwarden. It is literally the best solution out there. Been getting to increase uptake in personal circles with (very) limited success. The wife keeps trying to convince me that the ship has sailed in trying to protect info online. She's probably right.

Now that I'm not only using a Macbook and iPhone, I've been looking for cross-platform solutions. For a week I've been using KeePassXC + Syncthing between four devices. Syncthing is also syncing my Obsidian vaults which has replaced Apple-only Notes.app. Bitwarden is definitely more polished, and Syncthing is definitely (much) more fiddly than using Bitwarden's and Obsidian's ($5/mo) native syncing tools. But I like…

This is the same setup I used for years with no issues, both KeePassXC and multiple Obsidian vaults, along with some other random files and folders. Syncthing is pretty much rock solid. Now I have the KeePassXC database stored on my NAS which is even simpler.

Re: Two billion email addresses were exposed

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Post by inquirerGeneral »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #176
eyeundersand wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+1 for Bitwarden. It is literally the best solution out there. Been getting to increase uptake in personal circles with (very) limited success. The wife keeps trying to convince me that the ship has sailed in trying to protect info online. She's probably right.

Now that I'm not only using a Macbook and iPhone, I've been looking for cross-platform solutions. For a week I've been using KeePassXC + Syncthing between four devices. Syncthing is also syncing my Obsidian vaults which has replaced Apple-only Notes.app. Bitwarden is definitely more polished, and Syncthing is definitely (much) more fiddly than using Bitwarden's and Obsidian's ($5/mo) native syncing tools. But I like…

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Re: Two billion email addresses were exposed

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Post by kulahan »

enjaydee wrote: post #173
kulahan wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was in the military. China stole my freaking DNA profile . I've given up on worrying about this stuff.

Wow! Didn't hear about this. What test did you get done? I'm hoping it wasn't whole genome or exome?

It wasn't an actual DNA test, but the military takes blood samples of every recruit. I'm referring to this hack:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...

edit: the relevant text is below

> The data breach compromised highly sensitive 127-page Standard Form 86 (SF 86) (Questionnaire for National Security Positions).[8][18] SF-86 forms contain information about family members, college roommates, foreign contacts, and psychological information. Initially, OPM stated that family members' names were not compromised,[18] but the OPM subsequently confirmed that investigators had "a high degree of confidence that OPM systems containing information related to the background investigations of current, former, and prospective federal government employees, to include U.S. military personnel, and those for whom a federal background investigation was conducted, may have been exfiltrated."

Re: Two billion email addresses were exposed

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Post by antiframe »

smsm42 wrote: post #169
stronglikedan wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Bitwarden Best when paid for so you can do 2FA with TOTP codes!

It costs $10/year, so there's really no reason to not pay for it.

I have two reasons not to pay for it: 1) Aegis is free. 2) I rather not have my second factor be stored in the same database as my first factor.

Re: Two billion email addresses were exposed

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Post by seemaze »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #176
eyeundersand wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+1 for Bitwarden. It is literally the best solution out there. Been getting to increase uptake in personal circles with (very) limited success. The wife keeps trying to convince me that the ship has sailed in trying to protect info online. She's probably right.

Now that I'm not only using a Macbook and iPhone, I've been looking for cross-platform solutions. For a week I've been using KeePassXC + Syncthing between four devices. Syncthing is also syncing my Obsidian vaults which has replaced Apple-only Notes.app. Bitwarden is definitely more polished, and Syncthing is definitely (much) more fiddly than using Bitwarden's and Obsidian's ($5/mo) native syncing tools. But I like…

I originally started using Bitwarden to achieve sync across Mac, Windows, and Linux machines, along with all major browser platforms. It's been great!

Re: Two billion email addresses were exposed

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Post by Koffiepoeder »

stronglikedan wrote: post #78
eyeundersand wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+1 for Bitwarden. It is literally the best solution out there. Been getting to increase uptake in personal circles with (very) limited success. The wife keeps trying to convince me that the ship has sailed in trying to protect info online. She's probably right.

> Bitwarden Best when paid for so you can do 2FA with TOTP codes!

The moment you put TOTP in Bitwarden it is no longer a 'second factor'. Pretty bad security advice to be honest. Better to use hardware tokens or a secure phone (with enclave) instead (never SMS though).

Re: Two billion email addresses were exposed

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Post by taftster »

craftkiller wrote: post #157
jimmar wrote: post #50

I respect Troy Hunt's work. I searched for my email address on https://haveibeenpwned.com/ , and my email was in the latest breach data set. But the site does not give me any way to take action. haveibeenpwned knows what passwords were breached, the people who breached the data knows what passwords were breached, but there does not seem to be any way for _me_, the person affected, to know what password were breached.…

> there does not seem to be any way for _me_, the person affected, to know what password were breached You should be using a unique randomly-generated password for each website. That way, one breach doesn't lead to multiple accounts getting hijacked AND you'll know which passwords were breached solely based on the website list. The only passwords I still keep in my head are: 1. The password to my password manager 2.…

Yes! Me too. Not adding anything here except a confirmation on the above approach. You kind of need your email password as a "break glass" scenario. But mostly, you just need your password manager.
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