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I’m not sure how it’s even possible to store plaintext passwords in 2024, don’t most systems use a base level of encryption by default? Also surely someone not
by aryan14 2y ago
I’m not sure how it’s even possible to store plaintext passwords in 2024, don’t most systems use a base level of encryption by default?
Also surely someone noticed before they had to be fined, yikes
- giancarlostoro 2y agoThey realized in 2019. I'm assuming it wound up in logs somewhere and someone went "why the heck am I seeing prod passwords?"
- jahewson 2y agoLogs.
- Ancalagon 2y agoAbsolutely many people must have noticed. It was either technically infeasible to encrypt those (doesn't seem likely). Or the business decided it wasn't worth the investment (more likely).