Technology @lemmy.world Lee Duna @lemmy.nz 10mo ago

Researcher uncovers one of the biggest password dumps in recent history

arstechnica.com Researcher uncovers one of the biggest password dumps in recent history

Roughly 25 million of the passwords have never been seen before by widely used service.

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https://bitwarden.com/, https://1password.com/, https://lastpass.com/, https://keepassx.org/

Take your pick.

Note: Probably don’t pick LastPass. Read comments below.
- I feel like atleast one of these has been hacked at some point in the past, but I cant remember which.
  
  It was LastPass, but the passwords themselves weren’t leaked. All of these encrypt the password.
  
  KeePass doesn't store your stuff in the cloud; it's all local storage. You can sync your encrypted KeePass DB in a number of different ways; personally, I go for SyncThing, but you can use Box or whatever.
- Based on experiences helping people migrate away, I'd suggest removing LastPass from your list. See other replies for why.
  
  Note: For those that care, not only is BitWarden FOSS, it can also be self hosted easily using VaultWarden.
  
  I added a note. I personally use Bitwarden and would recommend it, but I didn’t want to give a biased recommendation. If, for whatever reason, one of the others works better for someone, just using an encrypted password manager is way better than not.
- I've had 1password for as long as I can imagine. Never failed me. Happy with it.
  
  Only issue I have with 1Password is their Android app. It works great most of the time, except that they didn't implement the Android autofill stuff correctly.
  
  It sees Firefox as a browser and offers autofill suggestions for the websites just fine, but apparently Fennec isn't on their allowed browser list or something. It just sees Fennec as another android app and doesn't offer logins for the website I'm on, just ones that I've linked to the Fennec app.
are these in haveibeenpwned yet?

edit: yes they are, i'm stupid
- About 1/3 had not been previously seen in the have I been pwnd database, that’s really crazy. Either this was a very new or private list of exploited accounts.
  
  The good thing (for me personally) is that only some very old mail aliases of mine are in this collection. Which means that using a password manager to create and save all my passwords for years does have a positive effect.
This is the best summary I could come up with:

Nearly 71 million unique credentials stolen for logging into websites such as Facebook, Roblox, eBay, and Yahoo have been circulating on the Internet for at least four months, a researcher said Wednesday.

breach notification service, said the massive amount of data was posted to a well-known underground market that brokers sales of compromised credentials.

Hunt said he often pays little attention to dumps like these because they simply compile and repackage previously published passwords taken in earlier campaigns.

This isn't just the usual collection of repurposed lists wrapped up with a brand-new bow on it and passed off as the next big thing; it's a significant volume of new data.

When you look at the above forum post the data accompanied, the reason why becomes clear: it's from ‘stealer logs’ or in other words, malware that has grabbed credentials from compromised machines.”

For added assurance, Hunt also checked a sample of the credentials to see if the email addresses were associated with accounts on the affected websites.

The original article contains 645 words, the summary contains 167 words. Saved 74%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
Whoa, had no idea haveibeenpwned charged subscriptions to search a domain >10 addresses now.

Using unique addresses since 1998 is quite expensive.

EDIT: Really, down votes? Nothing I said was wrong even if it's not fun hearing. I don't like it either. Linky I have 35 addresses found in breaches but can't tell which ones because it's $169.50/year or $16.95 if I subscribe and cancel to search each time.

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