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14-12-10, 02:20 PM	#1 (permalink)
Internet News Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 2,747 Thanks: 0 Thanked 11 Times in 9 Posts	Hacked Gawker passwords analysed We reported yesterday on the Gawker Media hack, whereby 1.3 million user names, email addresses and passwords were exposed. While the passwords were encrypted, the security wasn’t particularly difficult to crack, as experts Duo Security proved when they ran the passwords through the cracking tool, John the Ripper. Apparently there were 750,000 crackable password hashes, [...] More: Hacked Gawker passwords analysed

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