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What use are password dumps to hackers?
On a theoretical point of view, I get that it's bad to have my password exposed via a password dump because that means somebody could log into my accounts. In practice, how do hackers use those dumps, and how do they profit from it? I know they can use automated software to try those credentials on a myriad of services, but:
- they find that those credentials can be used to log in my Facebook profile: why would a hacker care?
- they find they can log in to my banking app, do they then manually swoop in to do stuff?
