Claim

LinkedIn breach INVOLVES Password salting

The episode says LinkedIn was not salting its passwords, making password cracking easier.

Episode

EP 87 — Guild of the Grumpy Old Hackers

Origin

Explicit

Confidence

99% (extractor score, not a fact score)

Speaker

Jack Rhysider

Attributed source

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Transcript evidence

Read the official transcript

Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T06:56:02.153907+00:00

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