New users have used Zoom as businesses, schools, and other organizations look for ways to meet safely during the coronavirus pandemic. Unfortunately, many of those brand new accounts appear to have been secured with old passwords
also got in touch with some of the compromised account owners and were told that the passwords were correct. In at least one case, however, the password listed was one that the user had long since changed.
It’s likely that most — if not all — of the half-million-plus passwords on offer are old. They might be new to the Zoom accounts in question but may well have been used elsewhere by the same individuals. Password re-use remains a huge security issue for the general public. Fatigued users feel like they can’t rememberThe problem is that by now all of those old stand-by passwords have been filed away in databases by criminal hackers. They’re actively using them to break into accounts using brute force attacks.
Usernames, email addresses, and passwords have been exposed by the billions over the past several years. Creating a new account on Zoom — or any service, for that matter — is simply not a good idea.To keep your own account from falling victim to a brute force attacks use unique, strong passwords. Passwords so strong you can’t even remember them.
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