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Once seen as bulletproof, 11 million+ Ashley Madison passwords already cracked

Hackers have cracked more than 11 million Ashley Madison account passwords in 10 days. Hackers uncovered programming errors that make more than 15 million of the passwords harder to crack. The blunders are so monumental that the researchers have already deciphered 11 million. The crackers hope to crack most of the remaining 4 million improperly secured account passcodes in the next week. The breakthrough underscores how a single misstep can undermine an otherwise flawless execution of the Ashley Madison security process, researchers say. The code was leaked along with hashed passwords, executive e-mails, and other Ashley Madison data.”]

Source: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/09/once-seen-as-bulletproof-11-million-ashley-madison-passwords-already-cracked/

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