It was modeled after the successful Advanced Encryption Standard process and NIST hash function competition, but directly organized by cryptographers and security practitioners.
On 20 July 2015, Argon2 was selected as the final PHC winner, with special recognition given to four other password hashing schemes: Catena, Lyra2, yescrypt and Makwa.
Gawker (2010), PlayStation Network outage, Battlefield Heroes (2011), eHarmony, LinkedIn, Adobe,
South Carolina Department of Revenue (2012), Evernote, Ubuntu Forums (2013), etc.
[2][3][4][5][6] The organizers were in contact with NIST, expecting an impact on its recommendations.