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		angusgr on June 7, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LeakedIn LinkedIn didn't use a salt. Hence the easier-than-it-should-have-been password crackfest. (However, could everyone please stop making random websites encouraging people to type in their passwords from third party sites!)

dhardy on June 7, 2012 | [–]

I suspected that was the answer but this blog post http://blog.linkedin.com/2012/06/06/linkedin-member-password... mentions that they are salting the passwords.

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