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Analysis of 400,000+ Stolen Yahoo! Passwords
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RE: Analysis of 400,000+ Stolen Yahoo! Passwords
(July 13, 2012 at 3:27 pm)Tiberius Wrote: If that wasn't bad enough, the passwords were being stored in the database in plaintext.

This part is criminally stupid.

Users will be users, and bad passwords are for now a fact of life.

That the service is vulnerable to a SQL injection with passwords stored in plain text is so far beyond stupid, when those responsible should be expected to know better. Are they stuck in 1979 or what?
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RE: Analysis of 400,000+ Stolen Yahoo! Passwords - by Jackalope - July 13, 2012 at 3:44 pm

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