Well, that really does not make much of a difference when you expose the entire database table and have way too much faith in the 34 year old encryption algorithm reported to be used to safeguard the data.

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With the database table of passwords widely available, it should be noted that most of the passwords will be broken eventually however, and so every user who has used a Gawker Media web site should change their password once Gawker is sure their systems are clean of any shells left behind by the attackers.

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