You hear about so many places getting breached that have now leaked out hashed passwords. At least this site had the foresight to use a modern hashing algo like argon2. So many have had weak hashes and could at least take a page out of proper hashing from this. They could have misconfigured argon2 properties but I’m thinking that as long as they at least used the default method, it will give the decent protection from cracking.
this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2023
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We still say “pwned”?
So was the operator of the website arrested because they released the details themself? Is that what's implied?
Looks like her was arrested for all the other cyber crimes he was committing. It doesn't say he wasn't the "leak" but also doesn't imply it either.
Ah thanks. The way the short HIBP message is phrased made it sound like the events may have been connected.
There is always a bigger fish.