Tutoring Website Makes Users' Passwords Super-Hackable

guest · Aug 17, 2018

Tutoring Website Makes Users' Passwords Super-Hackable
August 17, 2018
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...website-makes-users-passwords-super-hackable/

SuperProf, a website that provides tutoring services on various topics, has acquired a fellow service, The Tutor Pages, and migrated its userbase to its own service.
This migration from The Tutor Pages to SuperProf's infrastructure involved creating new user accounts and new passwords.

But unlike most websites on the Internet today, reports indicate that SuperProf did not generate random passwords for its users, but instead put together passwords that are made up of the word "super" and the user's surname, in the format of "superjohn" or "superjane."

"The message is clear to anyone who has woken up this morning to find they now have a SuperProf account: Change your password immediately," Cluley wrote in a blog post documenting SuperProf's epic fail.
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UPDATE [12:45 ET]: Following an inquiry from Bleeping Computer, a SuperProf spokesperson said they have reset the passwords for all the recently migrated Tutor Pages user accounts.
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