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		CameronBanga on March 27, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Slack was hacked Because I'm sure everyone uses a long, complex, and unique password on Slack. So nothing to worry about, everyone.

jessaustin on March 28, 2015 [–]

If Slack data isn't important, then it would have been fine to use one's default low-value password, right? So now some attacker has thousands of copies of the word "dragon".

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