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Yes, it's a good idea to do that. They said that passwords were compromised; I'm really hoping that was a simplification and they really meant to say that "individually salted, hashed passwords have been stolen" but they didn't add that qualification, so you should probably assume the worst.


Yeah, but if it's "individually salted md5 hashed passwords" then your password is quite possibly compromised.




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