‘Hash Hunters’ Web service cracks password hashes for bitcoins

Hash Hunters lets users post their passwords and offer a reward for a person who can convert it to the original password. The highest reward posted on Hash Hunters is 1.585 Bitcoins for an MD5 hash, which would be about US$209 according to the market price on the Mt. Gox exchange. The service will likely only attract a criminal crowd, a security expert says. It doesn’t use “https,” which is a standard security technology that encrypts communication between a client and a server.”]

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