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Re:6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked by madmaze on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @10:50AM (#4074136)
on another note,

my fairly complex alphanumeric+symbol password IS in the dump, though not prepended truncated with 0's and the other one I found, which my coworker admitted was too short and alpha only, was in the dump with prepended 0's.

This could validate the fact that the truncated hashes are actually already cracked.

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Re:6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked by nupark2 on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @02:19PM (#4075271)
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.

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Re:6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked by tomh on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @02:48PM (#4075442)
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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