Gregory's Server1. I think it's another step in the general disinfo strategy of a lot of authoritarian/fascist actors worldwide these days, to just make the truth less easy to know, to cast doubt on everything, to make the world just generally confusing and crazymaking so it's easier to get away with doing evil shit.
2. "properly hashed" - the idea with publishing hashed passwords is that there are also tables of hashed passwords out there, of common words and phrases and variations etc etc, and so by looking up a hash on those tables you can often find someone's password, especially if the password is a dumb one. which a lot are.
3. On the subject of someone wanting to get rid of something in the archive - I think the hack is mostly a psyop kinda strategy - if the IA developers and ops people are at all competent, the exploit that allowed the hackers to get data from the database isn't going to also allow them to for example go in and edit or delete archived content. The systems are probably separated enough to make that unlikely. But, just by doing the hack, the idea would be to cast doubt that this *didn't happen*. To make IA less trustable in general. Which is a shame.
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