February 27, 2019

Millions of utilities customers’ passwords stored in plain text

Plain-text, unencrypted passwords were sent instead of having users reset them. There was no breach, the firm claims, but how would it know?

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November 20, 2018

Instagram accidentally reveals plaintext passwords in URLs

It's another security stumble for the social network.

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September 11, 2018

Fetish app put users’ identities at risk with plain-text passwords

Whiplr, a naughty, naughty little app, has now secured passwords with "one-way encryption" and is "adding more security measures".

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February 05, 2018

What online sex toys can teach you about secure coding

Like other IoT security flubs, this one is full of elementary errors that you're just not supposed to make any more.

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September 27, 2016

Girls’ fashion hangout site leaking millions of plaintext passwords

The hacker says he's carved 2.2m passwords out of i-Dressup and could easily get at the entire database of 5.5m.

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September 06, 2016

More plaintext passwords leaked, nearly 100 MILLION of them!

Rambler is the latest company whose records were hacked and now leaked, including plaintext passwords for each account.

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November 10, 2015

Comcast resets 200,000 passwords offered for sale on Dark Web

Comcast says it wasn't hacked, but hundreds of thousands of its customers may have been, forcing the cable giant to reset passwords of about 200,000 customers.

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October 30, 2015

Webhosting company loses 13 million plaintext passwords, says “thanks for your understanding”

There's another data breach to report - and it's a big one, affecting approximately 13 million customers of the web hosting company 000Webhost.

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May 19, 2015

Uber in hot water again – this time over plaintext passwords in emails

Password resets are a necessary evil, but they're best avoided however they are done. And you don't get to use the word "hacked" if you use and reuse weak passwords!

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