Reply to post: Re: Stale old creds...

Londoner who tried to blackmail Apple with 300m+ iCloud account resets was reusing stale old creds

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Re: Stale old creds...

Forcing a user to reset the password is quite easy. Just force them to prove is them when they log in and then force them to register a new password.

Companies just don't like to do that because they hate admitting data leaks.

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