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Public Information Notice: Spotify Hacked
According to the Telegraph, Spotify was hacked and personal details may have been compromised. It applies to accounts created on or before December 19, 2008, and the bug that allowed the exploit has been long since closed. The hack has only just come to light.
Spotify, the online music streaming service which allows users to listen to music on their computers, has been hit by hackers. Users of the service have been advised to change their passwords.
Spotify also warned that personal details, such as email addresses, birth dates and post codes may also have been exposed during the security breach. However, it said that because credit card details used for premium accounts were handled by a secure outside organisation, payment information was not at risk.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynew...
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http://www.spotify.com/blog/archives/2009/03/04/spotify-security-notice/
"The hashes are salted, making attacks using rainbow tables unfeasible."
Wha?
Well...
A rainbow table is a lookup table offering a time-memory tradeoff used in recovering the plaintext password from a password hash generated by a hash function, often a cryptographic hash function. A common application is to make attacks against hashed passwords feasible. A salt is often employed with hashed passwords to make this attack more difficult, often infeasible.
At least that's what Wikipedia says.
Are we still
on planet Earth???
Pardon?!
Is that French?
Basically
They'd have to decrypt the passwords to be able to see what the actual text was, and that would be a challenging task.
And if the text is as illuminating as shown
where even Fraser has to wiki, who needs code.....
A gourmet writes
If the rainbow tables are unfeasible, does that mean that the hash browns are off?
Wasn't it the Rainbow Tables...
...that caused the bad hash and bad acid at Woodstock?
Man.
Noooo...
The Rainbow tables were situated in the bar of a much-missed venue in Finsbury Park