CNBC collected passwords and shared them with marketers

[gigazelle]

[url]https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/03/30/0356243/cnbc-just-collected-your-password-and-shared-it-with-marketers[/url]
[url]http://www.pcworld.com/article/3049552/security/cnbc-just-collected-your-password-and-shared-it-with-marketers.html[/url]

CNBC published an article Tuesday on tips to creating a secure password. They had a field where you could type your password in and have it rated. It has since been taken down, but a cached page is here: [url]https://archive.is/kaczF[/url]

It states that the passwords are not stored, but apparently a clever user found out they are being stored in a google doc form.

[Cakebatyr]

This has always been my concern with all those "this list of people's passwords have been leaked, enter your password to see if its still secure"/"how secure is your password" websites that pop up.

[.𓃉𓁿𓂎𓁿𓃉.]

i wonder what use marketers could get out of having people's passwords

[pentium]

[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;50035188]i wonder what use marketers could get out of having people's passwords[/QUOTE]
Access to user accounts so they can skim your shit and streamline the ads they'll tag your account with.

In other words, shit they have no fucking reason to be poking at because we already see them as the reason why abortion should be free and legal. Marketers and ad agencies are scummy bottom feeders.

[simkas]

To be fair, if you were dumb enough to actually type in your password into a field on some article, you kinda had it coming. Still a fucking shit thing for them to do and probably illegal in some way.

[Electrocuter]

If it was only passwords then honestly it's pretty useless for account stealing, yeah good job you have thousands of passwords from thousands of anonymous users including fake ones that people entered just for the fun of seeing how secure they are, now good luck figuring out what the fuck each password is for and if it is even real.

[dai]

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