Bruce Schneier is more than skeptical, given that the information about the actual passwords is sparse, and the news was broken by a single company, which nobody's ever heard of, who's now charging a fee to have your security status monitored. (The article and comments are both worth a read.)
Yeah, this is sounding, in Schneier's words, "squrrelier and squrrelier."
(h/t +Mary Oswell)
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Schneier on Security: Over a Billion Passwords Stolen?
Over a Billion Passwords Stolen? I’ve been doing way too many media interviews over this weird New York Times story that a Russian criminal gang has stolen over 1.2 billion passwords. As expected, the hype is pretty high over this. But from the beginning, the story didn’t make sense to me.
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