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This is the one that was from previously breached credentials right?
So their only fault was not forcing (did they support?) 2FA. + Potentially not having brute force monitoring?
Not having brute force mitigation is a pretty big miss.
Yeh, probably. But in this case they probably had only a few passwords per email, but lots of usernames to try. So per account blocks may not have worked as they had the correct passwords?