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Provided that its hashed with salt / diff methods, sure - but how can you be sure?


That's not what salting does, and different hashing methods are irrelevant. The danger of having your hash leaked is that it can be cracked and the plaintext password recovered. The hash itself is entirely useless for logging into other services.


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