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Over 7 Million Accounts for Minecraft Community Hacked (vice.com)
Joseph Cox, reporting for Motherboard: Over seven million user accounts belonging to members of Minecraft community "Lifeboat" have been hacked, according to security researcher Troy Hunt. Hunt said he will upload the data to his breach notification website "Have I Been Pwned?", which allows people to check if their account is compromised, on Tuesday, and that it includes email addresses and weakly hashed passwords -- meaning that hackers could likely obtain full passwords from some of the data. "The data was provided to me by someone actively involved in trading who's sent me other data in the past," Hunt, who has verified the data and sent Motherboard a redacted screenshot of some of it, said in an email.
One of the common themes in all of the security breaches and software security bugs that we've encountered lately is that an intelligent programmer isn't being used.
As these breaches continue to happen, the more I realize that we need to start rewriting all of our software to use an intelligent programmer. It won't be an easy process, of course. Nothing worth doing ever is easy! But once we do rewrite all of our software using a person that's as safe as an intelligent programmer then we'll all be a lot better off.
If we eliminate dumb programmers as the main source of security problems, then we can focus more energy on tackling other non-software security problems, like social engineering and faulty hardware.
When software security is the problem, then I think that the Rust programming language is the answer.