Hackers leaked 100 gigabytes of sensitive data belonging to the popular online casual sex and marriage affair website ‘Ashley Madison’ The hashed passwords that were previously thought to be cryptographically protected using Bcrypt, have now been cracked successfully. Bcrypt is a cryptographic algorithm that makes the hashing process so slow that it would literally take centuries to brute-force all of the Ashley Madison account passwords. The Password Cracking Group identified a weakness after reviewing the leaked data, which included users’ hashed password, executive e-mails and website source code.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/ashley-madison-password-cracked.html