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by kouiskas 4783 days ago
They were using and probably are still using unsalted MySQL 4.1+ PASSWORD()

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5677550
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nadaviv 4783 days ago
They mentioned they're using bcrypt in the comments:

http://www.name.com/blog/general/2013/05/we-got-hacked/#comm...

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kouiskas 4781 days ago
They're lying or confused, the data I have is definite proof. 9gag's password and ours were hashed unsalted with MySQL's PASSWORD(). I'll reply on that comment.
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nadaviv 4781 days ago
He seems to be correct. Here's the comment with more information: http://www.name.com/blog/general/2013/05/we-got-hacked/#comm...
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