6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked

Re:6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked by revelation on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @09:14AM (#4073581)

Given that these hashes are not salted, running a 'uniq' on the list of all users' password hashes would probably already cut it by half, if not more. Then you eliminate all the easy ones from wordlists, and post the remains on the internet for people with excess computing power to bruteforce.

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Re:6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked by 16s on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @10:01AM (#4073849)

They are already unique and sorted.

sort -u combo_not.txt | wc -l 6458020

wc -l combo_not.txt 6458020

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Re:6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked by biot on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @02:05PM (#4075185)

I assume the first line you meant to pipe it through uniq afer the sort? Otherwise the only thing you've demonstrated is that sorting a file doesn't change its line count. :)

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Re:6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked by JoshTriplett on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @03:58PM (#4075866)

"sort -u" means "sort and uniq".

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Re:6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked by biot on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @04:08PM (#4075926)

Wow, I can't believe I was never aware of this. Thank you!

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Re:6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked by leif on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @09:28AM (#4073667)

My password shouldn't be easy, and wasn't in the list.

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