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Norton LifeLock says thousands of customer accounts breached

by kuter on 1/15/23, 7:26 PM with 7 comments

• by djha-skin on 1/16/23, 4:03 AM

  Okay upon actually reading the article this is way trumped up.

  Accounts were breached by using credential stuffing which means using a password that was in some password breach and seeing if the users had reused their password.

  LifeLock wasn't hacked at all. They're just being an overly cautious company about publishing to users whether or not those users might have been compromised.

  Some users were compromised but this was due to password reuse.

• by listenallyall on 1/16/23, 12:26 AM

  What does LifeLock actually do? They collect subscription money, sure, but then what do they actually do to prevent customer identity theft? My guess is, not much.

• by kylehotchkiss on 1/15/23, 8:40 PM

  Bummer, this is one of the nicer identity theft monitoring programs. Have you ever tried the one that TurboTax offers? It’s garbage

• by djha-skin on 1/16/23, 2:59 AM

  First LastPass and now this. Is any customer data secure online if security companies can't take care of it?

• by mesozoic on 1/16/23, 12:30 AM

  They had one job.