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Comment by runesoerensen

> The number of passwords and the severity of the hack was not uncovered until today. The passwords were stored using unsalted MD5 hashing

Enough said.

> The most popular password pulled from the Last.fm database was 123456. Seriously, it’s 2016 people

Sure, but the breach was in 2012 TechCrunch. Better article: http://www.leakedsource.com/blog/lastfm

parent runesoerensen 10 years ago

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