Hackers Stole 65 Million Passwords From Tumblr (vice.com) 44
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, reporting for Motherboard: On May 12, Tumblr revealed that it had found out about a 2013 data breach affecting 'a set of users' email addresses and passwords, but the company refused to reveal how many users were affected. As it turns out, that number is 65 million, according to an independent analysis of the data. Troy Hunt, a security researcher who maintains the data breach awareness portal Have I Been Pwned, recently obtained a copy of the stolen data set. Hunt told Motherboard that the data contained 65,469,298 unique emails and passwords. Update: 05/30 16:36 GMT by M : An earlier version of the original report claimed that data of 68 million accounts were compromised. It's 65 million. The original story, and hence, this summary has been updated to reflect the same.
68 million or 65 million? (Score:3, Insightful)
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Okay I'm done whining about this.
Re: 68 million or 65 million? (Score:2, Flamebait)
I guess the difference comes from whether one browses Tumblr using one hand or two hands.
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Those three million are the ones whose password is "passw0rd".
After all, this is Tumblr we're talking about.
Tumblr (Score:1)
"Tumblr is a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007, and owned by Yahoo! since 2013. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog." - Wikipedia
Uh oh... (Score:5, Funny)
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How are we going to tell the difference?
sixpack of bud light (Score:1)
should goes to the guy who writes a bot to login to each account, delete its contents, and then close the account.
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I don't think he should be punished like that.
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1D10T is the jest name of the 100mm D10-T gun from World of Tanks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Totally unrelated, but I felt I had to contribute to the "6 degrees of separation" network.
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ID10T is the endearing name I grant everyone who plays this (or any other) P2W game.
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You have no fucking clue what P2W means - but hey, the world is full of the likes of you.
Re: Your passwords are too simple! (Score:2)
Re: At least they were salted and hashed (Score:1)
2 T oil
8 oz corned beef
65M passwords
1 white onion chopped
1 bell pepper chopped
2 potatoes shredded
Salt and pepper to taste
Sauté' vegetables in oil until soft, add passwords and continue until clear text
Add corned beef and potatoes and fry until golden brown
Serve with 2 pwned eggs
Oh noes (Score:1)
1) ....and nothing of value was lost.
2) It's like 65 million SJW's cried out from being triggered in their safe space and were suddenly silenced.
That Fair, I Guess (Score:2)
Tumblr is pro-shoplifting. So I guess they they should be fine with having their stuff stolen as well.
https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/... [tumblr.com]
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Great in theory, but once you have the hash table, it's just a matter of time until you find the passwords that generate the hash. It's brute force, but there simply aren't enough combinations possible to stop it.
Now hashing is still a whole lot better than storing the passwords themselves, but it's not perfect. If there's a way to use the has table to verify passwords (which is essential for it to work at all) then there's also a way to brute force it once you have it on your own system with lots of time t
2013 ... was that (Score:2)
a long time ago and stuff?