as a secure, deidentified data point under U.S. Yet, hashing has continued to be touted in the U.S.

Similarly, NIST has recommended that federal agencies stop using SHA-1 for generating digital signatures, generating time stamps, and other applications. We’ve known for some time that the EU considers hashed passwords to be personal information under GDPR and has specifically advised against using well-known hashing algorithms such as MD5 and SHA-1. One threat actor claims to have already cracked the passwords for 158,000 SHA-256 passwords but has been unable to crack the SHA-512 passwords.” This revelation explicitly highlights what is increasingly becoming an important legal question: Are hashed passwords secure? Or, perhaps more importantly from a legal perspective, does an unauthorized person having access to a username/email address and an accompanying hashed password “permit access to an online account?” What made this report a bit unique was that Bleeping Computer also reported that: “ The passwords stored in the database are hashed using SHA-256 or SHA-512 according to threat actors who have started to analyze the database. These databases typically contain credential information for customers, as was the case here. Shiny Hunters is known for exfiltrating large databases of customer information, often through misconfigured or otherwise compromised database. On January 22, 2021, Bleeping Computer reported about yet another data dump by the hacker group Shiny Hunters, this time for a clothing retailer.

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