Re:Opensubtitles.org breached – Email addresses, IP addresse...
by Aissen on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @08:54AM
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Thanks for sharing this, TIL.
It's a very interesting attack, highly specific to the high-number of breaches, high password reuse environment we're in that enables at-scale password cracking.
I don't think it invalidates this advice completely. You should watch the talk and eventually add a global pepper (assuming it does not leak), and of course do the final bcrypt(md5(pass)) -> bcrypt(pass) migration upon user login.
It's a very interesting attack, highly specific to the high-number of breaches, high password reuse environment we're in that enables at-scale password cracking.
I don't think it invalidates this advice completely. You should watch the talk and eventually add a global pepper (assuming it does not leak), and of course do the final bcrypt(md5(pass)) -> bcrypt(pass) migration upon user login.