If you haven't changed your password since 2012, you better do it now.
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Last.fm was hacked in 2012 — and we're now learning just how serious it was.
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The stolen info included user email addresses, and passwords. Passwords were encrypted, but not securely by modern standards: They used the outdated MD5 hashing method to secure them, and didn't "salt" them — a way to make encrypted passwords harder to crack.
As a result, "it took us two hours to crack and convert over 96% of them to visible passwords," LeakedSource says.
The site's analysis of the password reveals that the most popular passwords were extremely weak. 255,319 people used the phrase 123456, while 92,652 used password. In third place was lastfm with almost 67,000, followed by 123456789 (just under 64,000), qwerty (46,000), and then abc123 (36,000).
The site's analysis of the password reveals that the most popular passwords were extremely weak. 255,319 people used the phrase 123456, while 92,652 used password. In third place was lastfm with almost 67,000, followed by 123456789 (just under 64,000), qwerty (46,000), and then abc123 (36,000).
They're just asking to get hacked.
