Well in this case all you would have received is a salted hash without the salt, which would be pretty useless. So that's only useful where cleartexts are brea

Well in this case all you would have received is a salted hash without the salt, which would be pretty useless. So that's only useful where cleartexts are breached and there he'd then have the massive headache of securing that data. The best approach if this is a concern for you would be for you to store a password history of ones that you have used and when you changed them.