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Re:LivingSocial Hacked – 50 Million Customers Affected by floody-berry on Friday April 26, 2013 @09:00PM (#5616368)
http://hashcat.net/oclhashcat-plus/

MD5 is 2-3x as fast as SHA-1

MD5 is 5-7x as fast as SHA-256

I don't know why anyone would assume they are using anything better than MD5/SHA-1 considering the history of incidents like this.

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Re:LivingSocial Hacked – 50 Million Customers Affected by floody-berry on Sunday April 28, 2013 @05:55AM (#5620770)
https://www.livingsocial.com/createpassword: "LivingSocial passwords were hashed with SHA1 using a random 40 byte salt."

Shocker!

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