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Scraped data of 2.6 million Duolingo users released on hacking forum (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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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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[-] Chriskmee@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Lucky until we get actual quantum computing, it's not worth the years on a supercomputer to crack a single stolen set of encrypted passwords.

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