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moonlighter
"Often, random bits--known as salting--are added to a hash so that the output is harder to guess. But that does not appear to be the case with these leaked passwords."

Do they ever learn? They already got hacked in 2012! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_LinkedIn_hack

naedish
Hopefully they did learn, but this is just a link to the same story from 2012.
Dr_tldr
Notice the comments on the article that are over a thousand days old? Please don't inaccurately title submissions "2016" when you're uncertain (and in this case, very wrong) about the date.