re: #22 Bubblehead II

The fear is that some people have used the same PW for their email as they have for the Gawker sites, which is a stupid thing to do. This would allow the attacker, or anyone with access to the plain text database, to couple emails with Gawker passwords in an attempt to compromise email accounts, which can be a big deal.

There are 1.5 million compromised accounts, some of them are going to be shown to have been stupid.