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by mkosmo 3332 days ago
Agreed, a popped account is a bad thing, especially if it's published as such. A larger risk would be somebody popping one of the compromised-credential repositories. Then you've got both username and password. But here we're effectively seeing a slow-scale brute force...

Everybody should enable 2FA, and use the strongest 2FA you can. Buy a yubikey or other U2F key and use it for everything possible. And webdevs, please start supporting U2F in addition to RFC 6238 TOTPs. It's really not that hard.