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nupark2 on June 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: 6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked

Mine was 5 characters, alpha and numeric, but no special characters. It was in there, prepended with 0's.

Whoops.

At the very least, it should have been longer.

tomh on June 6, 2012 [–]

Same here - mine was all alpha characters, seven characters, and the hash with five 0's was in the file. Guess who just changed their LinkedIn password today? And included some numbers?

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