FWIW, his password was apparently "dadada". But he basically never used Twitter (didn't follow him on Pinterest), so he probably did what a lot of people do for services they don't really intend on seriously using (except most people seriously use those social media services), which is to just make up a silly password for all of them. Even so, probably should've picked something a little stronger than that...
What worries me most about this LinkedIn breach is that somehow, some way, they showed my email address.<p>Not once in my life do I recall ever setting up a LinkedIn account. Ever. But somehow, I have one. :/
I wonder if this implies a possible insight into password thefts, and why some of the "leaks" take years to actually be distributed/published by the original hacker.<p>If you stole a database of hashed passwords, you could focus on 2-3 "VIP" clients/celebrities of that database,
and despite the computational cost, try and crack that hash.<p>Knowning that if/when you crack the hash, you could potentially use that password on other logins that VIP might use, prior to anyone knowing.
Every time this sort of thing comes up, people piss and moan that password managers are too hard to use/etc.<p>I've never used a password manager besides keychain+safari (across several devices), and I just don't get the issues people claim to have.<p>If third party password managers are so terrible why hasn't chrome/ff/etc got a better built in password manager? Or if they do, why don't people use them?
Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest Accounts Hacked.
Twitter and Pinterest Accounts Hacked.
Twitter and Pinterest.
Not Facebook.
If I was MZ i would use "password" as a password on Twitter and Pinterest...