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Your Passwords May Already Be for Sale
What dark web monitoring catches — and why most businesses don't know they've been exposed
When a major retailer, hospital, or software company gets breached, millions of usernames and passwords get posted for sale on the dark web — and your employees' work credentials are often in that list. It doesn't matter that your own systems weren't hacked. If someone on your team used their work email address to sign up for anything that later got breached, those credentials are now in criminal hands.
Attackers take those leaked passwords and try them against business email accounts, Microsoft 365, banking portals, and remote access tools — a technique called credential stuffing. The average breach goes undiscovered for 207 days, meaning attackers may have quiet access to your accounts for months before anyone notices something is wrong.
Dark web monitoring continuously scans criminal marketplaces and breach databases for your company's email addresses and passwords — and alerts you the moment they appear. That early warning gives you time to force password resets and lock down accounts before an attacker acts on what they found. It's one of the simplest, lowest-cost protections a business can add, and most of our clients are surprised how often it fires.
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Steve Hanes www.vintageits.com
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