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Re:Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest password was 'dad... by manyxcxi on Monday June 06, 2016 @09:35AM (#11846627)
In 2012 (the hack which this came from) their passwords were encrypted with SHA1 and not salted.

I have a feeling that today things are better than that, but who knows, maybe not.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest password was 'dad... by zeveb on Monday June 06, 2016 @11:04AM (#11847271)
> In 2012 (the hack which this came from) their passwords were encrypted with SHA1 and not salted.

The passwords were hashed with SHA1, not encrypted.

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