My password hash was in the file and it was cracked. It was a combination of 8 upper and lower case letters, digits and special characters. This is the case where size does matter and apparently passwords like my old one can be broken on GPU in minutes or hours nowadays.

Quick sample from persons I polled: 2 password hashes were not in the file, 1 was there and cracked, 1 was there and not cracked yet.

As bad as it is, this can be a great case to raise the awareness of good password management.