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Re:Scribd hacked – emails and hashed passwords leaked on Thursday April 04, 2013 @12:41PM (#5493593)
Thank you for your suggestion. Not a weakness anymore :)
Re:Scribd hacked – emails and hashed passwords leaked on Thursday April 04, 2013 @12:33PM (#5493551)
We have reset passwords for all affected users. Hashes that got leaked are not useful now.
Re:Scribd hacked – emails and hashed passwords leaked on Thursday April 04, 2013 @12:31PM (#5493536)
Compromised != Hacked. To clarify: no accounts were accessed by the hackers, but small amount of account records have had passwords encrypted with outdated algorithm (basically SHA1 + salt), so we preemptively reset their passwords and sent out emails to all affected users.

This is how we define "compromised" - people which had their passwords hash with old algorithm, which is relatively easy to crack.

Re:Scribd hacked – emails and hashed passwords leaked on Thursday April 04, 2013 @12:16PM (#5493452)
We use scrypt for passwords hashing. This is modern hard to crack password hashing algorithm.

We do have database access logs, so it was pretty straightforward to identify which users were affected.

Re:Poll: Spaces in if statements on Thursday August 11, 2011 @10:21PM (#2875714)
Definitely put spaces