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We've had a few recent problems with old accounts being hacked for the purpose of "selling" goods (ie, scamming) in our member-to-member marketplace using these stolen identities. (The amounts are in the low thousands of dollars each, so it's serious.) Our forum has been around for 17 years (although only on XF for 3; before that on vBulletin), so I'm positive that we've got thousands of accounts with weak passwords that are going to be easy pickings for this approach in the future...

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