He then used the scanning tool NMAP to dig up thousands of vulnerable machines visible on the Internet.

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Bowes, a consultant with Dash9 security and a developer for security scanning tool NMap, says he collected the passwords to help researchers figure out how users choose passwords and make the authentication process more secure.

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