On 7/23/2013 10:43 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
(It seems most hack attempts we hear about lately have been against
fairly inconsequential
sites, where the hackers must be primarily after validated email
addresses, and hoping
users have reused passwords on multiple sites.)
They are primarily after the password hashes as well as the email
addresses. The addresses are the user id's for multiple sites, and the
hashes allow a "Dictionary attack", where they just run every word in
the dictionary through a hash function, and see what matches.
Since my password isn't in a dictionary, and doesn't contain any common
substitutions that would allow for guessing, I'm not concerned about the
breach.
Bill
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