Well, considering they said they compared "hashes" later on, and the hopeful unlikeliness that they were really using symmetric encryption, I feel like it's a pretty sure educated guess and not just a knee-jerk reaction.

edit: I didn't mean to be personally chastizing in my first post, I'm just extremely distraught at the advice I see in these threads, the continued confusion of people and the fact that people with massive userbases either aren't paying attention or are in this ignorant group of "it won't happen to me" people.