The site is sending out emails to customers advising them to change their passwords.
Such searches are fast and easy, and often the computers they find have weak passwords.
The other reaction to the Gawker situation is predictably a lot of advice on passwords.
They also try to elicit private information like passwords and bank account numbers to perform scams.
All turned out to be actual LinkedIn passwords that had been leaked and cracked.
Small outfits Siber Systems, PasswordSafe and Info Keep offer so-called vaults that remember and manage passwords.
His office keeps passwords changing frequently and minimizes the amount of staffers with access to them.
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So he's preparing a list for his heirs, including his accounts, safe combinations, even computer passwords.
Less sensitive than the passwords in this hack, though, are the email addresses themselves.
Soltani also created a visualization of the passwords used most frequently by YouPorn users.
All the data says that usernames and passwords are the weak link in the security chain.
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Android users are having personal data stolen, their bandwidth is being misused, passwords hacked.
"One password is much more secure than having 50 different IDs and passwords, " says Grimes.
Lesson learned for all parties involved passwords are changed, Ipad put away, and life moves on.
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The other third is mostly locked up, requiring payment or passwords to view it.
We have reset all users passwords and closed the security hole that allowed them to enter.
Right away I changed all of my passwords to my bank, Facebook, Twitter and email.
Once the passwords were cracked, we found that the same credentials were used across multiple systems.
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Data including emails, some passwords and other personal information on 51, 500 users of SonyPictures.com.
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And keep at home a handy list of long, complicated passwords for each site.
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We think about it in terms of bits and data systems, crashed websites and stolen passwords.
You're better off keeping all your passwords in a list and encrypting that document, he says.
Twitter has told its account holders that they need to be smarter with their passwords.
Forty-four percent know their teens' passwords, and one in 10 uses a location-monitoring device.
Yahoo apologized in the statement and urged users to change their passwords on a regular basis.
More than 50% of people shared their passwords with a partner, the survey found.
The company has forced all affected users to change their passwords and reset their session tokens.
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Creating passwords costs virtually nothing and smart-card readers for use at home are much cheaper too.
It fully prevents anyone from seeing sensitive information such as passwords or tracking browsing activity.
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That incident also saw the breach of about 1.5 million passwords from eHarmony members.
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