Zomato says it uses a “one-way hashing algorithm” for this. We found the marketplace, called Hansa, where the hacker, going by “nclay” is selling the data for 0.5587 bitcoins (equivalent ...

The MD5 password hash algorithm is "no longer considered safe" by the original software developer, a day after the leak of more than 6.4 million hashed LinkedIn passwords.

Hash Function: A computational algorithm that transforms an input (or 'message') into a fixed-size string of characters, commonly known as a digest, structured to be computationally infeasible to ...

TL;DR Hash is both a noun and a verb. Hashing is the act of converting passwords into unreadable strings of characters that are designed to be impossible to convert back, known as hashes. Some ...