Ashley Madison password crack could spell trouble across the Internet

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http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/09/ashley-madison-password-crack-could-spell-trouble-across-the-internet/

By Dan Goodin
Ars Technica
Sep 10, 2015

Now that a hobbyist team has uncovered programming errors that make more 
than 15 million of the Ashley Madison account passwords orders of 
magnitude faster to crack, it will be only a matter of time before a large 
percentage of them are available to hackers everywhere. And given how 
rampant password reuse is, the tsunami-sized torrent is sure to affect 
accounts all over the Internet.

As Ars chronicled in a 2012 feature headlined Why passwords have never 
been weaker—and crackers have never been stronger, it's not unusual for 
Twitter, Amazon, and online services to monitor large leaks and require 
password changes for affected users. As we reported:

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