If a company or website gets hacked, why does it matter how strong my password is? Isn’t it more important that I don’t re-use a password?

Question

If a site gets hacked, am I at any sort of advantage by having a complicated password, or does it not really matter at that point?

In: Technology

Answer 1

All answers about hash are great, BUT you still should use different passwords and not re-use them.

Some companies poorly handle their security and don’t hash the passwords properly (for example if a company sends your previous password by email when you ask for forgotten password, that’s a HUGE red flag). There are also other ways to obtain your password (e.g. phishing, finding it from hash by chance)…

TL;DR : it’s still better practice to not re-use passwords.