Re:Zappos.com customer database compromised
by palish on Sunday January 15, 2012 @09:38PM
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Was the password hash generated using bcrypt?
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Re:Zappos.com customer database compromised
by jjacobson on Sunday January 15, 2012 @09:44PM
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Plaintext passwords never touch our database. Expiring everyone's passwords was a security precaution given the fact that our non financial customer data was compromised in the first place. I can't comment on what lib or algorithm we use to encrypt our passwords since I don't work on that team.