Password Security Update Feb 5, 2016 5:31 am
SamsonBlack Hand
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Just a heads up. The back end password hashing has been updated. A global password reset has been performed.
After probably 10+ years of never having looked at it, it was about time it got updated to use something more modern. All users will need to reset their passwords in order to regain access as all of the old ones have been invalidated due to the fact that they were previously hashed using MD5. Yes, I did say it was old, didn't I?
Apologies for springing this out of nowhere, but it was long overdue.
After probably 10+ years of never having looked at it, it was about time it got updated to use something more modern. All users will need to reset their passwords in order to regain access as all of the old ones have been invalidated due to the fact that they were previously hashed using MD5. Yes, I did say it was old, didn't I?
Apologies for springing this out of nowhere, but it was long overdue.
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