password encryption joomla and jomsocial - joomla

We have a weird problem with password encryption at our website beta1.iamyogi.com.
We register a user at the website. There is a full registration possible with activation link in the e-mail. It is working till I want to log in. Even with a simple user "John" and password "12345".
If I change the password for "John" in the CMS to "12345" and save
the user account, I can login on the front with John/12345.
If I look at the database, the only change there is it the password field xxxx_users. First it was something like:
ad2630323c070b40776acc011b5c5116 then after the CMS change of password:
$P$DXe2T/Ceh3PeRAxdsFdwfYhKEndxIg.
It looks way different in type of encryption.
Do you know how this is possible?!
Joomla 3.2.1 and joomla 3.2.2 joomla 3.2.3, all tested same problem
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