Pasttense Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 Probably there are some eHarmony users on this forum. If so you should change your password there. "An unknown hacker has posted more than 8 million cryptographic hashes to the Internet that appear to belong to users of LinkedIn and a separate, popular dating website." "The smaller of the two lists contains about 1.5 million unsalted MD5 hashes. Based on the plaintext passwords that have been cracked so far, they appear to belong to users of a popular dating website, possibly eHarmony. A statistically significant percentage of users regularly pick passcodes that identify the site hosting their account. At least 420 of the passwords in the smaller list contain the strings "eharmony" or "harmony." 8 million leaked passwords connected to LinkedIn, dating website (updated) | Ars Technica
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