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Re:Millions of stolen Last.fm passwords have been decrypted.... by ancarda on Friday September 02, 2016 @07:29PM (#12416941)
If you follow the link in the article to leakedsource.com, it says:

    Passwords were stored using unsalted MD5 hashing.
It's 2016... why is this still happening?
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Re:Millions of stolen Last.fm passwords have been decrypted.... by LeoPanthera on Friday September 02, 2016 @07:29PM (#12416944)
Presumably because last.fm was created in 2002 and they never changed it.
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