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in thread What happened?

Evidently they were stored plain text. Until someone updates the users that the breach has been closed and the passwords are actually being stored in a sane manner, you should expect that people who care to do so have full access to your profile.

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Re^4: What happened?
by Juerd (Abbot) on Jul 29, 2009 at 15:35 UTC
    Yes, but still people should change their passwords *now*. And *again* when the problems have been fixed.

    If your password is listed, anyone can use your password to change your posts, or worse: change your password so you can't change it yourself, later.

    If you change it now, your new (temporary) password would still be stored in clear text, on a possibly insecure host (although apparently the passwords were stolen from a disused server), but getting it would require significant effort as opposed to just reading a magazine that has probably been copied over a million times already.

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      users who havent logged into perlmonks in over a year should have their passwords changed by gods
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