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Hacker Lexicon: What Is Credential Stuffing?

Published: Feb. 20, 2019, 4:34 p.m.

You may have noticed this happening more and more lately: Online accounts get taken over in droves, but the companies insist that their systems haven't been compromised. It's maddening, but in many cases, technically they're right. The real culprit is a hacker technique known as "credential stuffing." The strategy is pretty straightforward.