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HSBC now stands for Hapless Security, Became Compromised: Thousands of customer files snatched by crims

Alister

@mark jacobs

You seem to have a misunderstanding of the "breach".

Thieves used valid usernames and passwords leaked from other sites, not from the HSBC site, so whether HSBC salted their hashes or used HTTPS is irrelevant.

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