http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/09/ashley-madison-password-crack-could-spell-trouble-across-the-internet/
By Dan Goodin
Ars Technica
Sep 10, 2015
Now that a hobbyist team has uncovered programming errors that make more
than 15 million of the Ashley Madison account passwords orders of
magnitude faster to crack, it will be only a matter of time before a large
percentage of them are available to hackers everywhere. And given how
rampant password reuse is, the tsunami-sized torrent is sure to affect
accounts all over the Internet.
As Ars chronicled in a 2012 feature headlined Why passwords have never
been weaker—and crackers have never been stronger, it's not unusual for
Twitter, Amazon, and online services to monitor large leaks and require
password changes for affected users. As we reported:
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