Breach
77,542,528 rows
5 May 2012
In May 2016, LinkedIn experienced a data breach where email addresses and passwords, originally hacked in 2012, were exposed and offered for sale on a dark market site. The passwords were stored as SHA1 hashes without salt and were quickly cracked after the data release.
Data Included in the Breach
Email
78M
Password
55M
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