Comment Comment by kevjiang >> LinkedIn leaked 8 million users' passwords less than a year ago, because they were storing them in the database in plain text.The password leak from last year was really a leak of the password hashes. I'm pretty sure they didn't store passwords in plaintext.I think the backlash was because they didn't salt the hashes and only used one iteration of SHA1 instead of a more appropriate hash function.That being said, this doesn't really change the OP's point. Which was, "secure my ass" parent kevjiang 13 years ago
The password leak from last year was really a leak of the password hashes. I'm pretty sure they didn't store passwords in plaintext.
I think the backlash was because they didn't salt the hashes and only used one iteration of SHA1 instead of a more appropriate hash function.
That being said, this doesn't really change the OP's point. Which was, "secure my ass"