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The percentages on password-use percentages on this article shouldn't be taken too seriously. More than 200K accounts were compromised -- of those 200K, about 2
by freejoe76 18y ago
The percentages on password-use percentages on this article shouldn't be taken too seriously. More than 200K accounts were compromised -- of those 200K, about 27K passwords were recovered. Those 27K passwords were recovered because they were able to be looked up on a md5 lookup website.
- asmosoinio 18y agoAmazing that this fact is not mentioned in the original article nor the writeup! Totally changes on how one should analyze the numbers.
- lonestar 18y agoIf I recall correctly, the ~27k were not the easiest to lookup, but just the first 27k that the attacker looked up. He said he just got bored after that many.