diff --git a/OpenSim/Data/MySQL/MySQLXAssetData.cs b/OpenSim/Data/MySQL/MySQLXAssetData.cs
index 9f9c9cf4fa..5c92be9e4e 100644
--- a/OpenSim/Data/MySQL/MySQLXAssetData.cs
+++ b/OpenSim/Data/MySQL/MySQLXAssetData.cs
@@ -58,11 +58,6 @@ namespace OpenSim.Data.MySQL
         private bool m_enableCompression = false;
         private string m_connectionString;
 
-        /// <summary>
-        /// We can reuse this for all hashing since all methods are single-threaded through m_dbBLock
-        /// </summary>
-        private HashAlgorithm hasher = new SHA256CryptoServiceProvider();
-
         #region IPlugin Members
 
         public string Version { get { return "1.0.0.0"; } }
@@ -250,7 +245,9 @@ namespace OpenSim.Data.MySQL
                         }
                     }
 
-                    byte[] hash = hasher.ComputeHash(asset.Data);
+                    byte[] hash;
+                    using (HashAlgorithm hasher = new SHA256CryptoServiceProvider())
+                        hash = hasher.ComputeHash(asset.Data);
 
 //                        m_log.DebugFormat(
 //                            "[XASSET DB]: Compressed data size for {0} {1}, hash {2} is {3}",
diff --git a/OpenSim/Services/FSAssetService/FSAssetService.cs b/OpenSim/Services/FSAssetService/FSAssetService.cs
index 028dd0158f..2fb3e6ce90 100644
--- a/OpenSim/Services/FSAssetService/FSAssetService.cs
+++ b/OpenSim/Services/FSAssetService/FSAssetService.cs
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ namespace OpenSim.Services.FSAssetService
         private static readonly ILog m_log = LogManager.GetLogger(MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().DeclaringType);
 
         static System.Text.ASCIIEncoding enc = new System.Text.ASCIIEncoding();
-        static SHA256CryptoServiceProvider SHA256 = new SHA256CryptoServiceProvider();
 
         static byte[] ToCString(string s)
         {
@@ -357,7 +356,9 @@ namespace OpenSim.Services.FSAssetService
 
         string GetSHA256Hash(byte[] data)
         {
-            byte[] hash = SHA256.ComputeHash(data);
+            byte[] hash;
+            using (SHA256CryptoServiceProvider SHA256 = new SHA256CryptoServiceProvider())
+                hash = SHA256.ComputeHash(data);
 
             return BitConverter.ToString(hash).Replace("-", String.Empty);
         }