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Macy's and the Plain Text, Unencrypted Password

by Robdel12 on 12/7/12, 8:46 PM with 1 comments

  • by dschwartz88 on 12/7/12, 10:31 PM

    Am I the only who is crazy surprised this still happens? New startups have absolutely no excuse since every framework/language has some helpers for users and passwords. Old companies have no excuse because its trivially easy to upgrade users passwords to the new encrypted format.