"Often, random bits--known as salting--are added to a hash so that the output is harder to guess. But that does not appear to be the case with these leaked passwords."
Notice the comments on the article that are over a thousand days old? Please don't inaccurately title submissions "2016" when you're uncertain (and in this case, very wrong) about the date.
Hopefully they did learn, but this is just a link to the same story from 2012.