![]() ![]() Because there's so much fear about actually having accounts hacked, and since the consequences for not changing a password that might have been hacked could be severe, it's safer to change a password than risk financial headaches. So why would Derp post a collection of outdated passwords, some of which might be for inactive disabled accounts? The answer is to troll and prank Netflix users. "That was a password from about a year ago," said Travis Hammill, a 24-year-old REI employee in Alexandria, Va., who added that he's changed his Netflix password several times since then for security reasons. One person on the list confirmed that his listed password was an older one. Of the dozen or so credentials that CNET tested at random, none worked, and of several emails sent to Netflix users on the list, one bounced. The more than 1,800 passwords and usernames posted to PasteBin appear to be identical so far to a similar leak of Netflix passwords in December. ![]()
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