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Old 08-09-2005, 11:25 PM  
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Originally Posted by V_RocKs
He stated that his friends own personal accounts were hacked. That means this isn't a cracker bruteforcing, it is a hacker who stole the password file.

Hehe, yeah, personal accounts can be brute force attacked, without much of problem.. Even more so when you guess a username on pennywize, and it tells you if it's active or not even if the pw is wrong. So then they just need to hammer the username for the pw combo..

Not hard when they have a million word dictionary files.
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