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by SoftwareMaven 4415 days ago
It's important because if somebody gets your database, if you haven't hashed, they have everybody's passwords, and those passwords are often reused many times at many sites. Hashing at least puts a step between stealing your table and knowing everybody's passwords (a mathematically hard step for good passwords).

Also, please let me know what sites you manage so I know where my data is not valued.