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“A Netflix account is intended for one household…” Last week, we reported that Netflix had revealed the full scope of their anti-password sharing rules and regulations for account holders, which was widely met with derision and general public upset. Within a few days, Netflix stated that those announced rules and regulations were posted in error, […]

3 years ago

It turns out, the social media company had been saving passwords without any kind of protection on an internal server. On Thursday evening, Twitter took to, well, Twitter, to make the following statement: We recently found a bug that stored passwords unmasked in an internal log. We fixed the bug and have no indication of […]

8 years ago

It might be time to learn a whole new set of passwords. A few days ago, Cloudfare – an internet performance and security checking company – released a blog post declaring that they had accidentally been releasing private information on the internet. While fixing a bug in the system, the company discovered that they had […]

9 years ago

Put in a bit of effort folks… It’s pretty clear from the passwords that many people are using that they simply want to be hacked and have their data stolen, why else would they use such rudimentary passwords? By examining the accounts from a leaked Yahoo database, featuring outdated accounts from a calling service, researchers […]

10 years ago

Except if you used one of these passwords of course

11 years ago

The new title holder of world’s most common, and therefore worst, password isn’t much better.

13 years ago