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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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