3 ms·Why aren't these sites storing salted hashes? Plain text passwords are bad news...by snprbob86 18y agoWhy aren't these sites storing salted hashes? Plain text passwords are bad news...dreish 18y agoWhere did you get that impression? Not from the linked-to article, from my reading of it.hbien 18y agoIf a site is storing hashed passwords with salts, you generally don't know what the user's password is and you can't unhash them to find out.dreish 18y agoRight, and what does that have to do with this article about lists obtained by phishing and the like?hbien 18y agoMy mistake, I thought these passwords came straight from the databases.