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Thursday, July 19, 2012
Our Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Password System
It has been a heck of a year for password/password hash disclosures. In the same week in June, millions of password hashes were disclosed from LinkedIn, eHarmony and Last.fm. And in the same week in July, more than 450,000 usernames and unencrypted passwords were reportedly stolen from Yahoo Voice, while 420,000 password hashes were leaked as a result of an attack on Formspring.
