2010-01-19, 03:00 AM
Spideyjvc Wrote:So what do you do?
Create a password that cannot be used, even if it was cracked. Initially, my theory was to use a password with special text characters in it. This would make it EXTREMELY difficult to crack, if this group has the MD5 hashes. However, you cannot copy+paste into the Maplestory client, so that part of my plan was ruined. But then I realized that this password didn't work even on Nexon's site.
Does anyone know if the passwords were encrypted in Nexon's database? I was under the impression that md5 was near imposable to crack but a simple google search seems to prove that wrong (I didn't test it tho). So i suppose it could have been encrypted and the hackers just ran a crack algorithm on all the passwords and it wouldn't matter.
I guess this isn't really the place for this kind of question... but does the MD5 algorithm creating non-unique strings make it more or less vulnerable?
Anyways, great find. You are surely a critical thinker.