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AdultFriendFinder.com 103,070,536 passwords already plainly visible 232,137,460 passwords hashed with SHA1 99.3% of all passwords from this website are now p
by Kenji 10y ago
AdultFriendFinder.com
103,070,536 passwords already plainly visible
232,137,460 passwords hashed with SHA1
99.3% of all passwords from this website are now plaintext (cracked).
As someone who cares about security, this is very, very painful to read. But it also makes me curious about that password data set. It might be used for security research, like estimating the entropy of passwords more accurately.
- coldcode 10y agoIt definitely shows how terrible people are at password generation and reuse but even more so how little it matters on individual sites if those folks have no understanding or don't care about protecting passwords. Yet people keep using 123456 as a password.
- noir_lord 10y ago> if those folks have no understanding or don't care about protecting passwords I suspect that or is an and in a lot of cases as well.
- qb45 10y agoI use silly passwords at sites where I don't care about security and don't want to be correlated with my other accounts elsewhere. Does this mean I'm bad at password generation and reuse? ;)
- user5994461 10y agoLots of bots and throwaway on AdultFriendFinder. It's normal to have many users using "123456" and the likes, they are not real users.
- olegkikin 10y agoI'm shocked that developers of such sensitive website would do this. Were the owners cheap and hired some offshore team for pennies?
- nmgsd 10y agoYou can always assume this.