[outages] eBay password changes -- were they attacked?

[Joey Kelly]

On 04/05/2016 10:51 AM, DJ Anderson via Outages wrote:
> I got one of those a few weeks ago. 
> 
> When I inquired about it I was told that the password I was using was found on some leaked password list and due to that they had set a temporary password to protect my account. 
> 
> -DJ



Does that not imply they are not using salted hashes, but storing the
passwords in plaintext? Or maybe they're intercepting the passwords and
testing them against a dictionary? I might be OK with the latter, maybe
(but who appointed them to be the world's password police?)

--Joey Kelly


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