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Do LinkedIn, eHarmony and LastFM have any parts of their software stack in common? Same 0day?
by 0x0 14y ago
Do LinkedIn, eHarmony and LastFM have any parts of their software stack in common? Same 0day?
- ig1 14y agoThey're all Hadoop users.
- timdorr 14y agoI doubt their Hadoop clusters have password data stored in them.
- jen_h 14y agoIt would be very foolish, but I do wonder if they used Hadoop to compare their hashes with publicly exposed hashes after breaches of other sites (for example, Gawker or Zappos) in order to force reset affected users.
- benpbenp 14y agoOr perhaps some eHarmony and LastFM employees used sensitive passwords for their LinkedIn accounts.
- ch0wn 14y agoMore probably the same mindset regarding security. I wouldn't expect a company that stores unsalted passwords to invest much in security elsewhere.
- toyg 14y agoApparently this breach is a year old, so nothing to do with it. Maybe they just decided to go public today hoping that focus would remain on LNKD or (even better) people would just think "ah well, it can happen to everybody".