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Old Nov 12th, 2006, 2:15 AM   #1
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My Password Got Hacked

Hmm... well this sorta relates to my other post regarding the forum I'm programming in PHP. I posted about it at another forum and someone got a hold of the usernames and passwords (http://grimpirate.4mak.net/board_users.inc) from the forum, which is no big deal since I'm the only registered user. However, that means they also hacked my account over at that particular forum since I was using the same password. I'm curious if anyone knows how they did this? I stored the passwords using an md5 algorithm on that file that's highlighted here. However, I thought that it took lots of computing time to successfully hack an md5 generated key. Any ideas? Seeing as this person successfully hacked my password which I'm glad he did 'cause he helped expose a fatal security flaw in the forum. I'd appreciate the input.
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