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> What's the absolute worst that could happen if you crack my free account on some cooking website?

The worst that could happen is that you used the same password there as for your online banking, or important e-mail account and such.

If you didn't do that, then the impact is approximately zero.

Of course, that cooking site still wants you to use a sufficiently long password with at least one digit, capital and lower case letter, and special character ...




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