Hacker News
- Google Just Admitted Storing Passwords as Plain Text for 14 Years https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/google-just-announced-its-been-making-an-astonishing-mistake-for-literally-past-14-years.html 7 comments
- How To Safely Store A Password http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/ 102 comments
- Google Has Stored Some Passwords in Plaintext Since 2005 https://www.wired.com/story/google-stored-gsuite-passwords-plaintext/ 2 comments
- From ELI5: "Why is it so bad to store passwords in plain text?" - just kill me now None 98 comments sysadmin
- WPF storing usernames and passwords locally and securely. https://www.reddit.com/r/csharp/comments/fh0qf8/wpf_storing_usernames_and_passwords_locally_and/ 16 comments csharp
- LastPass stores passwords so securely, not even its users can access them https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/20/lastpass_outage/ 11 comments nottheonion
- Facebook Confirms Millions of Instagram Passwords Were Stored in Plain Text https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/03/keeping-passwords-secure/ 24 comments europe
- Facebook Stored Millions of User Passwords in Plaintext. https://www.tek-driven.com/2019/03/21/facebook-stored-millions-of-user-passwords-in-plaintext/ 27 comments privacy
- Facebook admits storing passwords in plain text https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-6835691/facebook-admits-storing-passwords-plain-text.html 4 comments worldnews
- Facebook Did Not Securely Store Passwords. Here’s What You Need to Know. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/technology/personaltech/facebook-passwords.html?partner=ifttt 8 comments technology
- Facebook Stored Millions of Passwords in Plaintext—Change Yours Now https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-passwords-plaintext-change-yours/ 4 comments technology
- Facebook stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in plain text https://www.axios.com/facebook-storing-hundreds-millions-users-passwords-internally-plain-text-fdba401e-1ec9-4e60-9388-596652163f1e.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=1100&fbclid=iwar3717lo1k4q377g-fcu9gyl-cgp7sozkfp4gwdg9ix_fwp6gppuzfgr_-w 7 comments technology
- Facebook Admits to Storing Millions of Users' Passwords in Plaintext https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/21/tech/facebook-password-database/index.html 77 comments webdev
- All your passwords are stored in cleartext in Firefox settings by default. https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/acahb1/all_your_passwords_are_stored_in_cleartext_in/ 111 comments privacy
- How Dropbox securely stores your passwords https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/09/how-dropbox-securely-stores-your-passwords/ 18 comments crypto
- How to Safely Store a Password in 2016 (with example code) https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/02/how-safely-store-password-in-2016 96 comments netsec
- Apple pulled an Instagram client from the App Store after discovering it was harvesting passwords http://www.techinsider.io/apple-pulled-an-instagram-client-from-the-app-store-after-discovering-it-was-harvesting-passwords-2015-11 16 comments apple
- AntiVirus firm BitDefender hacked; Turns out stored passwords are unencrypted http://thehackernews.com/2015/07/bitdefender-hacked.html?m=1 132 comments technology
- Hashing: Securely Storing Passwords http://www.griffsgrumblings.com/blog/2014/10/05/hashing/ 21 comments netsec
- Storing user passwords safely in the database http://blog.mist.io/post/75060934180/storing-user-passwords-safely-in-the-database 113 comments programming
- Starbucks Admits It Stores Unencrypted User Passwords, Location Data in iPhone App http://www.macrumors.com/2014/01/16/starbucks-unencrypted-passwords-location-app/?utm_source=osx&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=ios 55 comments apple
- 6 Articles You Should Read Before Storing Users' Passwords http://www.webmaster-source.com/2012/09/04/6-articles-you-should-read-before-storing-users-passwords/ 5 comments webdev
- Safely Storing Passwords http://blogs.perl.org/users/james_aitken/2011/07/safely-storing-passwords.html 5 comments perl
- 154 websites that store your password in plain text http://plaintextoffenders.com/ 128 comments netsec
- Even Rackspace stores passwords in the clear http://rondam.blogspot.com/2010/03/danger-will-robinson-rackspace-cloud.html 39 comments programming
- Bill O'Reilly's website hacked. They store their user's passwords in cleartext. http://wikileaks.org/leak/bill-oreilly-hacked-2008.jpg 10 comments reddit.com
- How To Find Your Stored Passwords In Firefox http://www.ebcak.com/archives/723 5 comments technology
- Firefox 66.0.5 released - more robust addon verification fix for users with an old master password, inaccessible cert store, ... https://www.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/66.0.5/releasenotes/ 111 comments firefox
- Facebook admits storing unencrypted user passwords on its server, says issue fixed https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/facebook-admits-storing-unencrypted-user-passwords-on-its-server-says-issue 15 comments privacy
- macOS High Sierra's App Store System Preferences Can Be Unlocked With Any Password https://apple.slashdot.org/story/18/01/10/2039203/macos-high-sierras-app-store-system-preferences-can-be-unlocked-with-any-password?utm_source=feedly1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed 3 comments technology
- macOS High Sierra's App Store System Preferences Can Be Unlocked With Any Password https://www.macrumors.com/2018/01/10/macos-high-sierra-app-store-password-bug/ 60 comments netsec
- statelessPassword: a password manager that doesn't store your passwords (Feedback appreciated) https://go.iondynamics.net/statelessPassword 12 comments golang
- WebBrowserPassView can be used to recover lost password for any website as long as the password is stored by the browser (IE/Firefox/Chrome/Safari/ Opera) http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/web_browser_password.html 3 comments software
- Servers Storing Passwords in Plain Text http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/sep-09-1.html 4 comments programming
- T-Mobile Austria Stores Part of Customers' Passwords In Plaintext, Says It Has 'Amazingly Good' Security https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7xdeby/t-mobile-stores-part-of-customers-passwords-in-plaintext-says-it-has-amazingly-good-security 6 comments technology
- Windows 8 stores logon passwords in plain-text http://www.passcape.com/index.php?section=blog&cmd=details&id=27&setlang=2 20 comments netsec
- EU set to unveil plans for bloc-wide digital wallet, that will securely store payment details and passwords https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/eu-set-unveil-plans-bloc-wide-digital-wallet-ft-2021-06-01/ 3 comments privacy
- I've recently seen several sites asking for login credentials for my bank. Username and password, which they assure me won't be stored on their system. Why is this not as crazy as it sounds? Why am I the idiot for not going along with this? Are there any standards for this? What are they? https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/763tab/ive_recently_seen_several_sites_asking_for_login/ 5 comments webdev
- Six university researchers have revealed deadly zero-day flaws in Apple's iOS and OS X, claiming it is possible to crack Apple's password-storing keychain, break app sandboxes, and bypass its App Store security checks. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/17/apple_hosed_boffins_drop_0day_mac_ios_research_blitzkrieg/ 8 comments technology
- Hackers have gained access to OneLogin, an online password manager that offers a single sign-on to multiple websites and services. OneLogin said in a blog post that it couldn't rule out the possibility that hackers got keys to reading encrypted data, such as stored passwords. https://phys.org/news/2017-06-hackers-centralized-password-onelogin.html 158 comments technology
