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by vaidhy 941 days ago
Let us say you do unix style passwords - generate random salt and store the salt with the password. Hashcat can run through 54 billion md5 hashes/17 billion sha-1/7 billion sha-256 hashes on a single pc per second.

Asking people to change the password as a precaution does not sound bad at all.