diff --git a/topics/threat/password-db-compromised.adoc b/topics/threat/password-db-compromised.adoc
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--- a/topics/threat/password-db-compromised.adoc
+++ b/topics/threat/password-db-compromised.adoc
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 {{book.project.name}} does not store passwords in raw text.
 It stores a hash of them using the PBKDF2 algorithm.  It actually uses
-a default of 20,000 hasing iterations!  This is the security community's recommended number of iterations.
+a default of 20,000 hashing iterations!  This is the security community's recommended number of iterations.
 This can be a rather large performance hit on your system as PBKDF2, by design, gobbles up a significant amount of CPU.
 It is up to you to decide how serious you want to be to protect your password database.