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    Nice going, Mr Zuckerberg

    As you may have heard.. hacked on Twitter/ caught out having the same simple password. Twice over. Slightly more to it, in that the 2012 LinkedIn hack comes into it, but even so.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...he-rest-of-us/

    And not only, but also..

    "The thing is, he’s not alone. Nobody that I’ve spoken to since the LinkedIn hack emerged, even those that are almost certainly affected, has bothered to change their password, and most of them use the same one for everything."

    I am not now and have never been a FB user - no plans to change that, unsurprisingly.
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    Re: Nice going, Mr Zuckerberg

    When was the linked in hack? Not sure I was a user at the time...
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    Re: Nice going, Mr Zuckerberg

    ^ sometime in 2012 (edit: 5 June says wikipedia) but only recently surfaced on the dark web (if that's not a contradiction) apparently - to the tune of 117 million email + password combos.
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    Re: Nice going, Mr Zuckerberg

    Quote Originally Posted by Millennium View Post
    When was the linked in hack? Not sure I was a user at the time...
    You can check if your email is in a leak here - https://haveibeenpwned.com/

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    Re: Nice going, Mr Zuckerberg

    Good link - and my email is in a few

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    I don't use the same passwords as I used in 2012 now though.
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    Re: Nice going, Mr Zuckerberg

    The simple password isn't smart but to be fair, it doesn't sound like he's been using his Twitter account since the LinkedIn hack. Changing the password of a service I no longer use isn't the first thing I think about.

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    Re: Nice going, Mr Zuckerberg

    Quote Originally Posted by TooNice View Post
    The simple password isn't smart but to be fair, it doesn't sound like he's been using his Twitter account since the LinkedIn hack. Changing the password of a service I no longer use isn't the first thing I think about.
    Iinm his twitter password was something like 'dadada' right? That just shows he doesn't really care what happen to it anyway.

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