Credential Stuffing Is Not Brute Force
Brute force guesses passwords. Credential stuffing already has them. That distinction matters because the defenses are different, and most people conflate the two. If you lock an account after five failed attempts, you stop a brute force attack. You do almost nothing to stop credential stuffing. What Credential Stuffing Actually Is When a company gets breached and loses its user database, those credentials get sold, traded, and published. Have I Been Pwned tracks over 14 billion compromised accounts as of 2026. That number grows every month. ...