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Virgin Media store their passwords in plain text
- dnskw 13y agoThey could have encrypted them and then decrypt if they want to view them.
- FruitForce 13y agoBut that's still just as bad. It doesn't matter if one person or a thousand people reads someone else's password in plain text. It's still technically a breach in security regardless of if they work for the company or not.
- dnskw 13y agoYes it is bad, but its better than storing them in plain text in the database.