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Norton LifeLock says thousands of customer accounts breached
TechCrunch ^ | January 15, 2023 | Zach Whittaker

Posted on 01/15/2023 3:38:51 PM PST by Golden Eagle

Thousands of Norton LifeLock customers had their accounts compromised in recent weeks, potentially allowing criminal hackers access to customer password managers, the company revealed in a recent data breach notice.

In a notice to customers, Gen Digital, the parent company of Norton LifeLock, said that the likely culprit was a credential stuffing attack — where previously exposed or breached credentials are used to break into accounts on different sites and services that share the same passwords — rather than a compromise of its systems. It’s why two-factor authentication, which Norton LifeLock offers, is recommended, as it blocks attackers from accessing someone’s account with just their password.

The company said it found that the intruders had compromised accounts as far back as December 1, close to two weeks before its systems detected a “large volume” of failed logins to customer accounts on December 12.

“In accessing your account with your username and password, the unauthorized third party may have viewed your first name, last name, phone number, and mailing address,” the data breach notice said. The notice was sent to customers that it believes use its password manager feature, because the company cannot rule out that the intruders also accessed customers’ saved passwords.

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To: Golden Eagle

So far, no hackers have managed to access the piece of paper on which my passwords are scribbled.


21 posted on 01/15/2023 6:35:34 PM PST by proxy_user
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To: Golden Eagle

Life lock used to be good. It stinks now, and I will not renew my membership.


22 posted on 01/15/2023 6:41:32 PM PST by jdsteel (PA voters elected a stroke victim and a dead guy. Not a joke.)
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To: Golden Eagle

Rather ironic


23 posted on 01/15/2023 7:15:53 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: The Duke

GPG is good also


24 posted on 01/15/2023 7:17:08 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: dljordan
The penalty for hacking needs to be hanging. Our governments do NOTHING.

I wonder if it’s the government doing the hacking?

25 posted on 01/15/2023 7:32:26 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: Golden Eagle

How ironic.

Though...people don’t provide them information for safe storage - it is a monitoring service for if someone uses information that was breached they will catch it and stop them in their tracks.

Now that will put this system to the test.


26 posted on 01/15/2023 7:51:31 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: cgbg
If folks want security and privacy they need to stick to dogs and cats!

This isn't a company for which you would give them information for safe storage - they monitor to stop people who use information that is stolen to open fake accounts, etc. in their name. Although, your personal account information would be provided to them in order for them to know and be connected to the same in order to monitor it. So now, this system will be put to the test if the information is out there to be used as a result of this breach.

27 posted on 01/15/2023 7:53:46 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Golden Eagle

Oh, the irony! It burns


28 posted on 01/15/2023 9:08:55 PM PST by Sparticus (Primary the Tuesday group!)
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To: Golden Eagle

Yet another reason not to get Norton.
I use to have to guide someone in uninstalling it when I worked at Earthlink ISP back in the dialup days. They had a deal with them and we in tech support found out what a pain it was to uninstall.
You first needed to get Norton’s own uninstaller from their website.


29 posted on 01/15/2023 9:18:17 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: Golden Eagle

I was kinda wondering in the back of my mind when Norton Lifelock would be breached.

Protect your identity . . . oops!


30 posted on 01/15/2023 9:29:26 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: beekay

Yeah, no kidding.

And I just saw their commercial about 20 times while watching Fox News over the weekend.


31 posted on 01/16/2023 2:55:29 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Golden Eagle

Well, so much for that company....................


32 posted on 01/16/2023 5:22:22 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: proxy_user
So far, no hackers have managed to access the piece of paper on which my passwords are scribbled.

Because you forgot where you put it?..................... 😁

33 posted on 01/16/2023 5:26:10 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Golden Eagle

I would bet that those 2000 republicans and republican leaning people whose social security number was released by the January 6 committee, I would bet that’s what they wanna do give them a couple of years worth of Norton lifelock


34 posted on 01/16/2023 6:13:03 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: SaveFerris
And I just saw their commercial about 20 times while watching Fox News over the weekend.

ESPN seemed to have it on a loop when I was sitting at the bar in a restaurant Saturday night. I even commented to my wife about it while sitting there…

35 posted on 01/16/2023 6:23:58 AM PST by Magnatron
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To: Golden Eagle

Passwords should reflect the site

My Pandora password is AppyPappy_1971_PanDora

Not really but you get the idea


36 posted on 01/16/2023 6:27:55 AM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Magnatron

They almost had me thinking of signing up.

Now......?? Not feeling to good about that.


37 posted on 01/16/2023 6:34:27 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

My wife belongs to AARP (I tried to talk her out of it... :-) ) and the the AARP snail mail piece that arrived today featured an ad for Norton Life Lock.

AARP is a crack whore!


38 posted on 01/19/2023 7:11:05 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Golden Eagle

I learned years ago to never use any software or service with “Norton” in the name.


39 posted on 01/19/2023 7:14:30 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: jdsteel

They were a long time sponsor of Limbaugh, IIRC.


40 posted on 01/19/2023 7:15:01 AM PST by nascarnation (Let's go Brandon!)
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