Tesla customers were using the same passwords on multiple sites, hackers report

The perps apparently tried credentials stolen from previous hacks on the website of the UK’s largest supermarket chain to breach the accounts of about 2,000 customers.

The hackers then posted the login details on an Internet bulletin board and stole some users’ loyalty card points.

“Hackers are thought to have exploited the way in which people often use the same username and password combinations across many of their online accounts,” the FT reports. “People close to the situation said the passwords and usernames may have been gleaned from phishing emails.”

They said the target was not Tesco’s systems.  “It was not a concerted effort to hack into Tesco’s system and pull out the data,” these individuals said.

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