Passwords of two-million Marijuana Growers Exposed Online

Lucy Hales
2 min readNov 4, 2020

GrowDiaries, a community of Marijuana growers suffered a data breach due to the use of a weak MD5 Hashing Function.

An Online community named GrowDiaries, where marijuana growers can discuss about their plants and engage with other farmers, suffered a data breach last month where 2 million passwords were leaked online.

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Lucy Hales

Student at Harding University | Cyber Security Editor