LivingSocial Hacked – 50 Million Customers Affected

Re:LivingSocial Hacked – 50 Million Customers Affected by nwh on Friday April 26, 2013 @09:18PM (#5616407)

It does mean that for a large dictionary attack things will go a lot slower. Rather than one computing one hash and comparing it to 50M hashes, the same word must be hashed with 50M different salts and then compared with their respective hashes.

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Re:LivingSocial Hacked – 50 Million Customers Affected by hexonexxon on Saturday April 27, 2013 @02:23PM (#5618580)

You can rent miners on the bitcoin network to use their pooled hashrate to break passwords, same with moxie's service cloudcracker.com

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Re:LivingSocial Hacked – 50 Million Customers Affected by mpyne on Friday April 26, 2013 @10:12PM (#5616522)

That's a more specific way of phrasing reversing the hash into a password, yes. ;)

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