The more I read about this, the more I think it is people wanting to blame TV instead of themselves for being hacked. It must suck to have to do PR for TV knowing that a majority of the people were probably burned by password reuse and poor configurations. Not that I want to defend TV that much, but it's not there fault you chose to store all your important passwords in your browser instead of securely in a password manager.
Teamviewer Down. Continued reports on Reddit of hacks.
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You mean like LastPass password manager - ummm, maybe not....?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/katevin...sing-encrypted-master-passwords/#34ce9a475a66
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Their ENCRYPTED passwords were stolen. Worthless unless you can crack the hashes. If ENCRYPTION was that easy to hack then NO SSL, HTTPS, or PGP message would be safe. That's why I find it very unlikely that TV has been hacked. Even if they got in the data the CAN steal can't easily be used.
"The good news is that no accounts were compromised, and attackers didn’t gain access to encrypted user vault data (which would include all users’ individual account logins and passwords stored by LastPass)."
I would still take my chances with last pass and the fact I could change my master password before they could decrypt it, then using just chrome that a free utility can scrape it in seconds. My point was people not taking any security precautions and then blaming someone else.
Just like blaming your security alarm company when your house gets broken into even though you left all the doors and windows wide open
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