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No, Spotify Wasn't Hacked

Troy Hunt

I just went and looked at the pastes HIBP has collected since the clock ticked over to 2019 and found 20 of them already: Digging further, I found over a thousand pastes with "Spotify" in the title. Instead, they need to look inwardly and adjust their own security practices instead. That's it, job done, they're into your account.

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The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach

Troy Hunt

The same anonymity model is used (neither 1Password nor HIBP ever see your actual password) and it enables bulk checking all in one go. Get a Password Manager You have too many passwords to remember, you know they're not meant to be predictable and you also know they're not meant to be reused across different services.