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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Hacked BitcoinTalk Data Finally Surfaces On Dark Net
by
theymos
on 06/09/2016, 07:44:46 UTC
I think that one extra step of security would be to have implemented a custom salt for every users password

Each hash has a unique 12-byte salt.

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Also, from StackOverflow:

That's the same nonsense I was responding to.

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Not all of the passwords in the database leak had that encryption :p

It's impossible to upgrade a user's hash until they log in, since their password isn't known. Those users never logged in since the hash algorithm was upgraded several years ago.