Poor password security on a 2017 healthcare website?

Discussion in 'privacy general' started by brians08, Jul 31, 2017.

  1. brians08

    brians08 Registered Member

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    I just created an account on myuhc.com today and found that the password restrictions are dangerously weak. They require a special character but in reality you are limited to only four of a possible 32 i.e. @ _ - #
    If that isn't enough, I discovered that the web form forces all lower case characters to upper case when you click the submit button. If a hacker gets the myuhc pw hash list, it should be very easy to run through hashcat with the pw rules: only upper case alpha, 0-9, @ _ - #
    I logged a complaint on the website but doubt they will care.
     
  2. Sordid

    Sordid Registered Member

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    No...
    http://rumkin.com/tools/password/passchk.php
    Unless they limit length or you use a short password, that char set is far large enough to resist brute-force; then there are hash "salts" versus table attacks.
    Meanwhile, service calls/tickets over being locked out due to capslocks/ambiguous symbol chars go away.
     
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