Hacker claims to upload 6.5M LinkedIn passwords

[Mousey]

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A Russian hacker claims to have uploaded almost 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords, The Verge reports.

LinkedIn in says in a tweet that "Our team is currently looking into reports of stolen passwords. Stay tuned for more."

In its posting, The Verge, a technology-focused news publication, says the hacker claims to have uploaded 6,458,020 passwords.....

 

[analistika74]

It's not a just a claim , it's confirmed by LinkedIn . About half of the password where decoded already .

Those affected will be notified by LinkedIn .

 

[Mousey]

Yes, it has been comfirmed...

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...Based on an analysis of the 118MB password dump, Wisniewski said close to 3.5 million of the unique passwords had been cracked and made available in plain text by late last night. It's only a matter of time before the remaining passwords are similarly cracked using automated password guessing tools, he added.

The speed at which so many hashed passwords were cracked underscores the weakness of the passwords protection scheme used by LinkedIn, Wisniewski said.

The breached LinkedIn member passwords were all hashed, or masked, using a hashing protocol known as SHA-1. ...

Also ... over a million

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. Probably by the same hacker(s).

 

[harrys99]

Yes, it has been comfirmed...

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Also ... over a million

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. Probably by the same hacker(s).

Oh that's just perfect-when does this crap end?

 

[analistika74]

When the overpaid fat fraks that worked on this systems get their but kicked for making such stupid mistakes . Using a 20 year old algorithm is something completely unacceptable . However their's a whole chain of morons including database admins and systems admins .

Personally i blame outsourcing to dumbfrakistan to save money . If you're gonna have a world class website at least use some decent people. Not someone that can't even speak proper English .

Just my 2 cents .

 

[harrys99]

Personally i blame outsourcing to dumbfrakistan to save money . If you're gonna have a world class website at least use some decent people. Not someone that can't even speak proper English .

Thanks-that made me laugh

 

[Simmo!]

Also ... over a million passwords at eHarmony have been hacked. Probably by the same hacker(s).

Love the irony...a hacker, at eHarmony LOL. Wonder if his mum knows he's at that age now

When the overpaid fat fraks that worked on this systems get their but kicked for making such stupid mistakes . Using a 20 year old algorithm is something completely unacceptable . However their's a whole chain of morons including database admins and systems admins.

There will always be criminals unfortunately but IMO they're the ones to blame for this sort of shit, not the companies they hack. If any of our insurance companies turned round to us when our house was broken into and said "well you should have got tougher glass" we wouldn't be happy with that.

It's a shame that people choose to be destructive rather than constructive with their lives. The world would be so much better otherwise.

 

[chayton]

One of my clients had a website that was hacked, he called me to see if I could log in and see what the damage was, and sent me his server and CMS username and password.

Username: administrator
Password: password

 

[Simmo!]

One of my clients had a website that was hacked, he called me to see if I could log in and see what the damage was, and sent me his server and CMS username and password.

Username: administrator
Password: password

LOL.

By the way, Last.fm has also just been compromised

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[GrandMaster]

One of my clients had a website that was hacked, he called me to see if I could log in and see what the damage was, and sent me his server and CMS username and password.

Username: administrator
Password: password

Did he not know that it should be disguised as pa55w0rd to thwart hackers?

A few month back at work we were sent an e-mail that according to the new password policy we had to have a new password at least 10 characters long and contain at least 2 numbers or special characters, if we did not change it our accounts would be locked, and very conveniently the e-mail included a link to the webpage where the password had to be changed. I had to point it out to the people in charge of security that their e-mail looked exactly like a phishing e-mail apart from the better English.

 

[GrandMaster]

When the overpaid fat fraks that worked on this systems get their but kicked for making such stupid mistakes . Using a 20 year old algorithm is something completely unacceptable . However their's a whole chain of morons including database admins and systems admins .

Personally i blame outsourcing to dumbfrakistan to save money . If you're gonna have a world class website at least use some decent people. Not someone that can't even speak proper English .

Just my 2 cents .

Programming ability has nothing to do with ability to speak "proper English".

 

[chayton]

Did he not know that it should be disguised as pa55w0rd to thwart hackers?

Well he changed to to '123' first and then some web guy he knew gave him a better one.

 

[Mousey]

Heads up! ....

Coming to an Inbox near you... warnings to change your password at these places with the usual phishing links.

I've already had 3 LinkedIn phishing mails in my junk folders since yesterday evening telling me to click their link(s) to change my password. (I do not have a LinkedIn account.)

 

[analistika74]

Programming ability has nothing to do with ability to speak "proper English".

English is quite possibly the easiest language to learn . If a person lacks the ability to learn it to a good level I honestly doubt they have the capability of mastering OOP and MVC . The best learning and training material is written in English . Again I doubt they can learn it without the use of English language .

Programming in JS/AJAX/XML , PHP/MySQL and C#/ASP.NET/MSSQL is connected to proper English usage , whether we like it or not .

 

[taysh075]

English is quite possibly the easiest language to learn . If a person lacks the ability to learn it to a good level I honestly doubt they have the capability of mastering OOP and MVC . The best learning and training material is written in English . Again I doubt they can learn it without the use of English language .

Programming in JS/AJAX/XML , PHP/MySQL and C#/ASP.NET/MSSQL is connected to proper English usage , whether we like it or not .

I can't comment on the need for English to learn programming but I do not agree that English is the easiest language to learn. In English there are too many exceptions to rules. Romance languages tend to be easier to learn particularly as if you learn the rules they tend to generalise to other romance languages (French, Italian etc). It's arrogance to expect others to learn English despite the fact that this does seem to be a dominant language worldwide (or is the demanding???).

 

[GrandMaster]

English is quite possibly the easiest language to learn .

Are you talking from personal experience or can you refer to a scientific study to support your claim? My experience is that, for example, Spanish or German are much easier.

If a person lacks the ability to learn it to a good level I honestly doubt they have the capability of mastering OOP and MVC . The best learning and training material is written in English . Again I doubt they can learn it without the use of English language .

Programming in JS/AJAX/XML , PHP/MySQL and C#/ASP.NET/MSSQL is connected to proper English usage , whether we like it or not .

There are books in other languages. Even to read technical literature in English, you need surprisingly little knowledge of the language and you don't need to be able to speak it fluently without grammatical errors and with a good pronunciation. I have read scientific papers in Dutch which I don't speak, but it is close enough to German that I could make sense of it with fairly little need for a dictionary.

I can think of several Russian and Chinese scientists who are professors at universities in the UK or in the US and whose English is so bad that they would not be admitted as students to the institutions where they work, but this has not stopped them from doing good scientific work, keeping up with the scientific literature and even publishing in English.