Sadly many companies did in their early days from that period (even when it was known to be bad). Blackberry had plaintext passwords stored in a postgres dB up

Sadly many companies did in their early days from that period (even when it was known to be bad). Blackberry had plaintext passwords stored in a postgres dB up until 2.0 of BES (circa 2007). More so as no constraints (yes many many people had a password of "pass","god" and the like). So let us not forget legacy systems we have all encountered or read nostalgic stories about how old XYZ kit is still in use today. Or to put it another way - the amount of work that went into Y2k, just to fix a date field, fixing a plaintext password is more work and we have had no password2k like event and any event is local with some company falling foul and by that - getting hacked and data shared publicly. So even today, you can guarantee that their are still systems out there using plaintext password storage. Some will be legacy hangover reasons, but not all. But it sure does make you think, how many legacy systems are still in use today and by legacy, they don't even have to be that old in some fields or work. Sure does make you wonder about satellite security given the age of some of those still operational and in orbit.