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Comment by Someone1234

> Any account passwords that may have been accessed were securely hashed, in accordance with best practices, meaning they cannot be read by a third party.

I am glad they were hashed, but that's a misleading statement. The point of hashing is to slow an attacker down, even with full best security practices (e.g. salt + pepper + argon2 w/high factors) they can still be reverse engineered. It is a matter of when, not if.

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