Stolen Adobe Passwords Were Encrypted, Not Hashed

rjmarvin writes "The hits keep coming in the massive Adobe breach. It turns out the millions of passwords stolen in the hack reported last month that compromised over 38 million users and source code of many Adobe products were protected using outdated encryption security instead of the best practice of hashing. Adobe admitted the hack targeted a backup system that had not been updated, leaving the hacked passwords more vulnerable to brute-force cracking."

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Re:Am I imagining it?

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It wouldn't matter if users just followed best practices for password selection.