Software firm fined $74k for data breach caused by weak password; half a million users affected

dohpaz42, 23 days ago

PPLingo

As a man, I just want to take a brief moment to appreciate this company’s name. 🤭

minibyte, 23 days ago

If you really cheap out you can find sympathy cards for about 17 cents a piece. $74,000 will buy you 435,294 cards, ignoring tax. Although, you’d still have to pay for the stamps and you’d still be a few thousand cards shy.

Sorry.

AnUnusualRelic, 23 days ago

Sofrwarefirm1234 isn’t weak, it’s long and has numbers in it!

Anticorp, 23 days ago

That’s definitely going to be one of the first attempted passwords with a dictionary attack, or even with a manual guessing attack.

KISSmyOSFeddit, 23 days ago

Not with that typo it isn’t