In March 2012, the music website
Last.fm was hacked and 43 million user accounts were exposed. Whilst
Last.fm knew of an incident back in 2012, the scale of the hack was not known until the data was released publicly in September 2016. The breach included 37 million unique email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes.
- Date: Mar 22, 2012
- Domain:
last.fm
- Category: Streaming & Entertainment
- Records Announced: 37,217,682
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Sources:
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Data:
Email Addresses
Passwords
Site Activity
Usernames
- Imported:
- Records Imported: 43,570,999
- Number of lines: 43,571,138
- Size: 7.38 GB
- Passwords:
MD5
- Cracked:
8%
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