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Hacking pranksters have caused a rumpus in Finland by posting the account and login details of thousands online. The information - usernames, email addresses, some passwords and many more uncracked password hashes of almost 79,000 user accounts - are largely from different Finnish web forums. By itself that's bad enough, but …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Troll or not troll? You decide.

    Given that the name of the host where the passwords were posted ends in -chan, and that the url path contained the substring '/b/', shouldn't the real headline be "World reels in amazement as not all /b/-tards turn out to be completely full of shit"?

  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Online banking in Finland

    All the banks here provide a list of single use key-value pairs (won't ask the same pair more than once). So when you log in, you must provide a right value matching a given key. Never mind if a script kiddie got your HoTMaiL password..

  3. David Wilkinson

    Makes you wonder

    How often does this exact thing happen, but the criminals don't advertise?

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    I am also confused as to the criminals motivation.

    A "white-hat" would do the deed to draw attention to security problems, but not post the hashes and passwords.

    If there was a profit motive, I imagine you would probably want to quietly exploit the information without anyone knowing.

    I am guessing then that the motive is either bragging rights or revenge?

    Only how do you enjoy either if you can't tell anyone?

  4. Veikko Virtanen

    Most common passwords

    Amount Password cumulative %

    214 salasana 1.18 (salasana=password in Finnish)

    176 123456 2.16

    118 perkele 2.81 (Common 4-letter word)

    85 12345 3.28

    74 qwerty 3.69

    The whole list telling the so far found passwords and the number of appearances is available at http://10.uraanikaivos.com/yleisyys.txt

    Page is in Finnish, but the list is understandable. Currently 28% of the passwords have been decrypted.

  5. Anonymous Coward
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    @Veikko Virtanen

    voi Vittu!

    </coat>

  6. foo_bar_baz

    @anonymous coward

    Very clever.

    A while back a Finnish banner ad for the Dr. Who TV series read "Who the f**k?". This was from the national broadcasting company. Very amusing.

    For some reason the threshold for using rude words in a foreign language is low.

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