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by dns_snek 697 days ago
As long as the salt is an actual salt (i.e. unique random value for each user entry), it's not a disaster, but it's going to significantly easier to crack a password that was hashed once than one that's gone through hundreds of thousands of hashing iterations or used a more advanced algorithm like argon2 which is more resistant to cracking by design.

The recommendation that I'm familiar with is to increase the cost as high as your servers can reasonably bear. High number of iterations and more advanced algorithms will increase the load on your servers but in turn they'll also provide much better protection.