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insomniasexx  ·  4108 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: This guy made crosswords out of the recent Adobe Password/Hint Leak

Basically there was a leak of a butt-ton of Adobe passwords. The leak included email + encrypted password + password hint in plaintext. If you group the encrypted passwords by encrypted password, the common ones include numerous hints and with the collection of hints it is very easy to determine the password for all those accounts.

Here's a cool walkthrough of it: http://7habitsofhighlyeffectivehackers.blogspot.com/2013/11/...