Cutout.Pro, an AI-powered visual design platform, leaked 20M records, including email and IP addresses, names and salted MD5 password hashes, which have then been broadly distributed.
Cutout.Pro, an AI-powered visual design platform, leaked 20M records, including email and IP addresses, names and salted MD5 password hashes, which have then been broadly distributed.
Have I Been Pwned allows you to search across multiple data breaches to see if your email address or phone number has been compromised.
Haha, brand new company with MD5 password hashes. Maybe they oughta consult about securities with their/other AIs more often. Hopefully, nobody did anything naughty on the site.
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It's a good thing not just everybody can afford a raspberry pi zero that would be necessary to crack an MD5 in seconds
That really depends on the password complexity. Sure, you can crack a password of 6-8 characters in below 30 minutes, but anything more complex than that will take days and longer.
My default password is 22 characters long and includes a unique identifier for each service plus a checksum. Say as an example (similar enough to my actual use case) for Adobe I'll have "Ae" (first and last letter of the service) and "41" in a specific position (A = 41 in Hex).
That way even if I repeat the other 18 characters (including symbols, upper and lower case characters) it will take years or even decades on a consumer grade system to crack my password, and the hash is unique for each service/website, so there won't be any collateral damage either, even if some service I used got breached and my password somehow fully exposed.
I think I'll stick with a password manager and its randomly generated passwords instead of doing an algebra problem every time I want to check my email
I guess then "hunter2" users are in trouble.
Some companies may also just be storing passwords in plaintext.