Today it became known that LinkedIn (supposedly) lost around 6.5 million passwords (or more accurately, password hashes). Curious to see if mine was in there, I decided to download the file containing the supposed password hashes and check (it wasn’t). As checking your password against a list of SHA-1 hashes can be a little complicated, I created a little QlikView application to simplify the process. Yes, that’s what I do for fun.

The application takes a password for input and checks it against the password hashes. A message is shown to indicate if the password was found. If your password was not found, it is probably a good idea to change it anyway.

You can download the QlikView application using the link below. The application does not yet contain the actual password hashes, you’ll have to download those from one of the many mirrors. At 118 MB it’s a big download, but then again it’s a lot of data. Extract the file named combo_not.txt in the same directory as the QlikView app and reload.

Download the LinkedIn leaked password checker app

Of course, this application is provided completely as-is, without any warranty whatsoever.

About The Author

Barry Harmsen

Hi there, I'm Barry and I'm a Business Intelligence Consultant at Bitmetric and based in the Netherlands. Originally from a background of 'traditional' Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence and Performance Management, for the past 10 years I have been specializing in Qlik and a more user-centric form of BI. I have done numerous QlikView and Qlik Sense implementations in many different roles and industries. In 2012 I co-authored the book QlikView 11 for Developers. You can follow me on Twitter at @meneerharmsen.