Quote from: Chipaton on May 03, 2013, 11:18:31 AMQuote from: jh2018 on May 03, 2013, 11:08:10 AMOr he just used many of the public emails available. If he had "hacked" the forums, why would he need the passwords of players on the forums?
If you look closely at the email, then you could probably think that it's optical, but it's not. It's probably a banned player who got extremely mad and hacked into the forums, and got everyone's email addresses, and sent them out to all forum members.
Well, passwords are stored as irreversible MD5 hashes (might be another one, but it's morning and I forget the other acronyms for the types of hashes used). If the person "hacked" the passcodes, then they would only get one-way encrypted hashes which can only be broken by brute force hacking.






