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I just got the email from haveibeenpwned. F Trello.

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[–] [email protected] 164 points 10 months ago (36 children)

Obligatory: companies should face harsh penalties for this stuff.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Yes but this wasn't a data breach. This was a data stuffing incident, meaning they took someone else's data dump and tried their email and credentials here.

  • never use the same username and password in two or more places
  • always use MFA, a hard token if you can like a yubikey
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Physical token over TOTP authenticator?

[–] brian 2 points 10 months ago

all the root secrets are available in plain text the generator app at some point, they have to be. moving that to a single purpose device greatly reduces the risk of vulnerabilities in your phone leading to exfiltration via internet connection

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