Check if your Linkedin password was stolen
June 7, 2012 | 
Author As you all probably heard, there were some stolen passwords from Linkedin this morning (announcement). A simple way to check if your password belongs to the ones stolen is by using the following script:
#!/bin/bash if [ ! -f 'combo_not.txt' ] then if [ ! -f 'combo_not.zip' ] then echo "Downloading the list of sha1s" wget http://wordpress.phobostechnology.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/combo_not.zip fi echo "Unziping" unzip combo_not.zip fi mine=$(echo -n "$1" | sha1sum | cut -d' ' -f1); mine0="00000"${mine:5}; echo "checking "$mine echo " and "$mine0 echo "===found:" grep -e $mine -e $mine0 combo_not.txt |
Do chmod +x on the script and then run it placing a space in front, so that the command does not appear in the history of commands.
For example:
$ ./check.sh 123456 checking 7c4a8d09ca3762af61e59520943dc26494f8941b and 00000d09ca3762af61e59520943dc26494f8941b ===found: 00000d09ca3762af61e59520943dc26494f8941b |
PS. Yes, someone is using the password 123456!
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