Quote:[He]...downloaded the students' passwords that they used to access the system.
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Weiss cracked the students' encrypted passwords, the indictment said, helped from his own research on the internet.
Wild that databases would store passwords of their users without salting and proper (one-way) hashing. Malpractice on the part of those database admins.
Here's what those admins should have done: https://www.vaadata.com/blog/how-to-secu...-database/