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The release at http://pastebin.com/9rRmf6W5 http://pastebin.com/9rRmf6W5 contains this gem: > Gawker uses a really outdated hashing algorithm known as DES (Dat
by kristaps 16y ago
The release at http://pastebin.com/9rRmf6W5 http://pastebin.com/9rRmf6W5 contains this gem:
> Gawker uses a really outdated hashing algorithm known as DES (Data Encryption Standard). Because DES has a maximum of 8chars using a password like "abcdefgh1234" only the first 8 characters "abcdefgh" are encrypted and stored in the database.
That doesn't make me think the hacks were very sophisticated.