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Hackers Stole Over 43 Million Last.fm Accounts In 2012 Breach
The aftermath of 2012's infamous hack is shaping up to be more serious than we had anticipated. An anonymous reader writes: Last.fm suffered a data breach back in 2012, but details of the attack were not disclosed. On Thursday, breach notification site LeakedSource, which obtained a copy of the database and posted details of the hack in a blog post, said more than 43.5 million accounts were stolen. The database also contained hashed passwords, scrambled with the MD5 algorithm that nowadays is easy to crack. LeakedSource said that the algorithm is "so insecure" that it was able to decipher over 96 percent of passwords in just two hours.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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