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If this is part of the same attack that hit LinkedIn and Last.fm are there any theories on what the exploit was? I'm having a hard time imagining how someone co
by Lukeas14 14y ago
If this is part of the same attack that hit LinkedIn and Last.fm are there any theories on what the exploit was? I'm having a hard time imagining how someone could steal passwords from 3 large, completely independent web services at the same time.
- tzs 14y agoIt's possible that these were accumulated at very different times, by very different exploits, and possibly by very different people, and ended up in the hands of one group that released them together. I saw speculation that the easy to break ones have already been long broken and exploited, and this release is the ones that weren't easy. That could explain why all three were dumped at the same time...they basically just went through and dumped the ones they couldn't use from all of the accumulated lists.
- seanp2k2 14y agoSee also: VUPEN hack with 130 0-days supposedly leaked.