<div dir="ltr">attempting many accounts (e.g. with a botnet) with few (e.g. commonplace) passwords is harder for the bank to detect and react, vs many attempts on once account (when they can count attempts per minute on the account, throttle that IP or telephone that customer or whatever). So this would seem like a bigger PITA for the bank, except for modern stuff like longer passwords and multifactor authentication.<div><br></div><div>Peter</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 6:41 PM Jonathan Engwall <<a href="mailto:engwalljonathanthereal@gmail.com">engwalljonathanthereal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hello,<div dir="auto">Just the other night I saw an article about crypto theives breaking passwords based on many people using the same password.</div><div dir="auto">The idea being to access many accounts at once. Did anyone else see this?</div><div dir="auto">My bank says they might be having a system wide error.</div><div dir="auto">Jonathan Engwall</div></div>
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