Massive Brute-Force Attack on Alibaba Affects Millions

Massive Brute-Force Attack on Alibaba Affects Millions

February 10, 2016 | NSFOCUS

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Up to 21 million accounts on Alibaba e-commerce site TaoBao may have been compromised thanks to a massive brute-force attack. Dave Martin, our security expert and director said that some of the accounts were compromised because of overlapping passwords but there were likely many accounts stolen due to weak passwords that were defeated using brute force password attacks. To read the full article, please click here.

 

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