League of Legends database compromised, passwords hashed without salt

Re:League of Legends database compromised, passwords hashed ... by confluence on Saturday June 09, 2012 @12:20AM (#4087169)

Is it just me or have the number of announcements on HN about password leaks gone up in the last few weeks?

I think availability bias is kicking in, with each additional announcement, more links about announcements are posted (for karma) or more sites feel like they can announce, under the cover of larger leaks, that they themselves have been compromised.

Probably just me.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic

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Re:League of Legends database compromised, passwords hashed ... by mistercow on Saturday June 09, 2012 @12:28AM (#4087185)

It seems to me that there have been a few more lately than usual. I'm all for it though; the only way sites are going to start treating passwords responsibly is if they're embarrassed into doing it.

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Re:League of Legends database compromised, passwords hashed ... by duaneb on Saturday June 09, 2012 @12:38AM (#4087207)

I'm OK with that. Hash leaks are big news.

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Re:League of Legends database compromised, passwords hashed ... by IsTom on Saturday June 09, 2012 @07:46AM (#4087870)

I haven't seen what was the weakness exploited in all these attacks -- perhaps it's a common vulnerability that was discovered by a group of bad guys.

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Re:League of Legends database compromised, passwords hashed ... by jsprinkles on Saturday June 09, 2012 @12:46AM (#4087220)

Not just the last few weeks, the last few days. I was already drawing that conclusion before this disclosure, and internally speculating that the same group or person might be responsible.

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