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Any info on how and why so many were cracked? Passwords too simple?


MD5, unsalted. On commodity hardware you can compute those blazingly fast. A brute force attack, ignoring word lists, is totally possible.

That's ignoring all the resources that offer access to precomputed hashes (I don't want to call a list of MD5 hashes a rainbow table).

Easy or not, passwords saved with this scheme are unprotected.





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