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Re:Elsevier Left Users’ Passwords Exposed Online by adossi on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:26AM (#19431092)
>allowing passwords to hit the logging infrastructure.

This is the most ridiculous of the three in my opinion. When logging to elasticsearch you programmatically have to say what data to put in the document before its indexed (and thus viewable via Kibana). This means that the developer actually put the password as a parameter in the document object.

Re:Elsevier Left Users’ Passwords Exposed Online by cjbprime on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @11:48AM (#19431945)
Not necessarily, it could just be total and indiscriminate logging of HTTP requests.