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joelhaasnoot on June 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: 6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked

They might need help cracking the hashes, keeping the usernames behind for their own exploits.

nakkiel on June 6, 2012 [–]

Or they may use this as an advertisment for selling the actual dataset.

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