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From nakedsecurity.sophos.com - May 31, 2016 9:38 AM
MySpace’s turn

Well, it’s happened again.

This time, the breach is said to come from MySpace, and the number of passwords claimed is an eye-popping 427 million.

Apparently, there are only 360 million users on the list, but some accounts have more than one password listed, for reasons that aren’t explained.

Once again, the passwords allegedly exposed in this breach were simple, unsalted SHA-1 hashes, vulnerable to just the same sort of high-speed try ’em all attack as in the LinkedIn breach of 2012.

According to Leaked Source, lots of passwords have already been cracked, with the top 50 choices so far accounting for more than 6 million passwords, or 1.5% of the total.

 

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