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		esnard 13 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Two billion email addresses were exposed 5894 means that the password appeared 5894 times in the dataset. 5894 is not the password associated with the hash.

zahlman 13 days ago [–]

Yes, it did mean what I thought, then.

But I guess some passwords appear far more often than that in the dataset.

lmm 13 days ago | [–]

Some passwords are far more commonly used than others; that isn't surprising.

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