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nickodell on Oct 14, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dropbox.com hacked?

Perhaps they obtained the hashes, then tried bruteforcing them, and only published the ones that they actually found.

yen223 on Oct 14, 2014 [–]

Doubt it, there's some non-dictionary-word passwords on the list.

mehwoot on Oct 14, 2014 | [–]

Mostly short ones though.

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