The Linkton Breach - What You Need to Know

The data stolen from the linkton breach was use our names, email dresses and sha on hashed passwords. The document that ed windaw noted from facebook simply contained the email dress and the cracked, clear text password. So if they were to look in this data base for their s name, and there was a hit, they would see that friend's password that they were using unlinked in four years earlier than this. And as you might have guessed, many users weren't picking strong passwords. Over 700 thousand users just had the password one, two, three, four, five, six. And of course, the most popular password was just password. Those are bad passwords.