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Scraped data of 2.6 million Duolingo users released on hacking forum (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The scraped data of 2.6 million DuoLingo users was leaked on a hacking forum, allowing threat actors to conduct targeted phishing attacks using the exposed information.

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[–] z4x15@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm so glad I switched to duck email. Might as well changes it again and block the old email.

[–] Unsustainable@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

DDG email is AMAZING! I only wish it would have been around before my email got exposed.

[–] fox@unilem.org 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Only one thing to do... Start over fresh.

I just did this a few months ago, and it feels really good to have a proper set-up now, with privacy respecting companies all around.

[–] Unsustainable@lemmy.today -1 points 1 year ago

I'm in the process of doing that. It's not a quick and easy process. I was so lazy with password, that I would just use a variation of 3 different passwords for everything because that's all I could remember. Then I had a password exposed, so I decided to change all my passwords to unique passwords and use a password manager. I was shocked to see that I had 126 passwords saved in my browser. That took a long time to go through and change the email and passwords to everything.

[–] stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

I’m really confused on what you’re responding to

[–] stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Live learn and share right! 😉

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Why did you choose DDG mail over Addy?

[–] Unsustainable@lemmy.today -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because this is the first time I've heard of Addy. I saw your comment and downloaded the app from F-Droid. I'll see how it compares to DDG. Do you know of any advantages over DDG?