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by cristoperb 2487 days ago
I'm one of them :/

The haveibeenpwned description says password hashes are md5, which sucks. But phpBB has used bcrypt by default since version 3.1 (2014)... I wonder if all the hashes are md5 or only those for older accounts?

https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#XKCD

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Impacted as well, but I'm happy to be part of it. Either they'll crack an old password or, more likely, this is a new style password and they waste a lot of cracking time on it. Using a password manager for everything except a few offline things and my bank account was definitely the right move.
What do you use for your bank account?
Same as for my master password: a randomly generated, memorized password.

The trick to remembering them is to use them regularly. This is also why I don't use a passphrase: a password is much shorter and less frequently typo'd, thus less annoying for frequent use.

phpBB... I wonder how many of those accounts are just fake spam bot accounts.