On April 26, 2016, when it came to light that about 7 million email addresses and passwords were hacked from Lifeboat, the community website of the hugely popular video games maker Minecraft, security analysts immediately started advising users to reset passwords of all their online accounts, in which the compromised password had been reused. In terms of numbers, the Lifeboat hack represents one of the massive breaches in recent times. However, as many high profile hacks are getting reported every now and then, such headlines do not evoke much shock or surprise nowadays.
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