[esnard]

Weird. The file was cracked in May 2024, while the password had appeared in a database leak which was added in HIBP (and thus pretty much public) back in October 2017.

Unsure why it took the community so long to crack the file.

[catsma21]

the salt for the passwords in the bitly breach isn't known, and the few plaintexts available were lost to time

[boredpudding]

The cracking basically started the moment youtubers presented it as 'a mystery'.