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"The data involved consisted only of email addresses and information already visible on public SoundCloud profiles". So they've scraped public data. Why care?

Overlooked in the (excellent) article and interesting for cracking bcrypt passwords: FPGAs, see e.g. https://scatteredsecrets.medium.com/bcrypt-password-cracking... >.

Seems that bcrypt, scrypt and Argon2 are all designed to slowdown attacks on specific hardware platforms. All run relatively slow on GPUs so they all work. The blog covers how to o…

I guess he's feeling the heat of sites that do more than parsing emails from SPAM lists. These sites include full cracked passwords, HIBP 2.0, see e.g. https://scatteredsecrets.com…