No, they really did get hacked- or at least someone leaked their accounts. Find yourself here:
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Then, someone started cracking the MD5 password hashes and then, with passwords in hand, trying various accounts until they found one with lots of money. There is a $1000 per day withdrawl limit, so in order to get more bitcoins out, they had to crash the market close to 0 first. And that is what happened today.
The End.
Started cracking MD5 hashes? You have no idea what you are talking about.
The passwords in the accounts.csv are not MD5.
More likely, a hacker got access to the serer, did the damage he did ( dump BTC on the market from 1 account or something) and figured: while I am here, I might as well spice things up and make a full dump of the users database table.
The two $ it is a clear telltale of the Modular Crypt Format of crypt(3)
It is a Unix MD5 Hash, it is given away by the $1$, the 1 confirms the MD5 algorithm.
Before making statements be sure you know what you are really talking about.
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt"
