8 million leaked passwords connected to LinkedIn, dating website


8 million leaked passwords connected to LinkedIn, dating website


A partial list of the 6.5 million passwords leaked by someone identified as dwdm. The list contains strong passwords that were unique to LinkedIn, leading to speculation that's were the passwords originated.

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 massive dumps over the past three days came in postings to user forums dedicated to password cracking at insidepro.com. 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.



A partial list of the 6.5 million passwords leaked by someone identified as dwdm. The list contains strong passwords that were unique to LinkedIn, leading to speculation that's were the passwords originated.
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