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by tonicoto 3578 days ago
> The number of passwords and the severity of the hack was not uncovered until today. The passwords were stored using unsalted MD5 hashing

I'm 100% sure it was known it was MD5 before, and I'm 100% sure I've seen pastebins with lots of successfully bruteforced hashes, because my password was among them.

Example: https://blog.lastpass.com/2012/06/in-case-you-missed-it-chan...