Crackshash - Password

Why your $2y$10$... string is more valuable to a hacker than your credit card number.

"Cracking" is actually a high-speed guessing game. The attacker takes a wordlist (like rockyou.txt ), hashes it using the same algorithm, and asks: "Does my hash match the stolen hash?" crackshash password

They fire up Hashcat: hashcat -m 1400 -a 0 hashes.txt rockyou.txt (Flag -m 1400 = SHA-256, -a 0 = straight wordlist). Why your $2y$10$