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Old Jul 26, 2018 | 4:31 pm
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Originally Posted by Deltus
Does DDOS threaten any passwords or personal data? I thought it just takes websites down (although I'm definitely no expert).

In any case, if you *are* an expert, you'll surely have different passwords on every single website account you access, so nothing to worry about...
THat's correct. Who knows why someone would want to knock the site offline.

Even non-experts can use a password manager to generate and store unique passwords for every site. I use LastPass.
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