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Evernote Breach: 7 Security Lessons

Evernote Sunday informed its 50 million users via email that it had suffered a data breach and suspected that usernames, email addresses and encrypted passwords may have been stolen. The company didn’t disclose what attackers apparently took, as well as how that data was protected. The good news for users is that the company had salted and hashed their passwords — unlike LinkedIn, which only hashed its passwords, thus making them more susceptible to being brute-force cracked offline and in relatively little time after LinkedIn hacked into LinkedIn last year.”]

Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/evernote-breach-7-security-lessons

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