Wolf68k

I get it that hacks happen but I think it's a bit ironic that Hak5 got hacked. I'm also wondering why the password database doesn't encrypt the passwords themselves. This implies that they are in plain text. Wouldn't even a simple hash of some kind be enough?

Advanced RAR Password Recovery http://www.elcomsoft.com/arpr.html That's what I used in the past. If you have some idea of what password is, like if it's a word and not just random numbers and letters, and how long it is, you can get it done fairly quickly. It cost $30USD, I'm not sure what the trial limits are. They also have one for ZIP files, which for me I found worked much faster but it only does ZIPs. If you got this via torrent, usually there is 2 ways to get the password. 1. If there is a web address in the file name; eg: www.joeblow.com then that is the password. 2. There is either a text that is not encrypted within the RAR file or the text file is just part of the set of files and not within that RAR itself.