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		thaumaturgy on Sept 10, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Alleged leak of more than 5M Gmail accounts I bet there are some people who have other leaked account & password lists, and since the isleaked.com site is kind enough to give the first two characters of the password for any given email account, it'd probably be possible to guess the passwords for some of those accounts.

psykovsky on Sept 10, 2014 [–]

Am I blind? I only see if there is a match, no password initial letters at all ???

EDIT: Not blind, it just doesn't show the initial letters if you search using a wildcard even if there is only 1 match.

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