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by travisp 5267 days ago
While they do get "+1" for this, they haven't provided any further details of what exactly they did with the passwords. Did they use a salt? Was the hashing algorithm MD5, bcrypt, or something else? If they used MD5 with no salt, your password may not be much more secure than a clear text password unless it's particularly complex.