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New York Yankees and Rangers fans at high risk of password breach, with millions hacked, new study reveals

New York Post·Brooke Steinberg·about 1 month ago
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New York sports fans are at high risk of their passwords showing up in a data breach. ipopba - stock.adobe.com New York sports fans might want to switch up their passwords. A new study from Duelbits revealed that millions of sports fans across America are at risk of being hacked due to passwords that are related to their favorite teams — and New York sports fans are some of the most likely to be victims, with six out of 10 New York-based teams making the top 20. The research used compromised password data to discover how many times passwords for several terms related to the 124 teams across the MLB, NBA, NHL and NFL have been exposed. An astonishing 42,260,852 passwords linked to sports teams have been compromised in data breaches, and Yankees and Rangers fans were some of the most compromised. The study found that New York Yankees fans were the second most at risk of a password breach. A whopping 1,228,703 passwords related to the team were found in data breaches.…

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