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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: DOWNLOAD LINK FOR MTGOX COMPROMISED ACCOUNTS CSV
by
cypherdoc
on 19/06/2011, 20:49:13 UTC
If they cant get the passwords because they're hashed, then... ummm, how did they do it?

What do you think Bitcoin miners are doing? Cracking hashes.

What do you think the passwords are protected with? Hashes.

So it's easy to crack hashes passwords, takes a few minutes per password, as long as it takes to crack a new Bitcoin block (about 10 minutes) is how long it takes to crack a hashed password.

thats bullshit you ass.  miners are bruteforcing to attempt to come up with a number below the target hash.  hashes are unbreakable and cannot be reconstructed back into the original password.