Github accounts Hacked in ‘Password reuse attack’

Popular code repository site GitHub is warning that a number of users’ accounts have been compromised by unknown hackers reusing email addresses and passwords obtained from other recent data breaches.

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Since the leaked credentials of recent widespread megabreach date back more than 3 years, there may have still been a possibility that those credentials were being re-used by many online users for other services.

So, it’s high time you changed your passwords for all social media sites as well as other online services, especially if you use the same password for different websites.

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