Aetna Replacing Security Passwords With Machine Learning Tools

In 2016, more than three billion passwords were harvested from breaches by criminals in the U.S., according to Shape Security.”Criminals exchange passwords on the Dark Web and use a technique called credential stuffing to apply passwords to targeted web domains and automatically attempt authentication for tens of thousands of compromised passwords,” Routh explained. “Criminals are able to achieve a two percent hit ratio of account takeover using credential stuffing, helped by the fact that consumers reuse passwords across sites.”

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