Re:Robinhood Stored Passwords in Plaintext
by losvedir on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @04:43PM
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My first guess, too. I flagged the story for the misleading headline, but alternatively an admin could change it to "Robinhood security incident" or something to that effect.
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Re:Robinhood Stored Passwords in Plaintext
by markdown on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @06:33PM
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> I flagged the story for the misleading headline, but alternatively an admin could change it to "Robinhood security incident" or something to that effect.
Why is the headline misleading? I mean, they say in black and white that they stored passwords in a readable format. The headline is completely factual.
If my password gets compromised, it's irrelevant where Robinhood stored it, just that they did so in plain text. That it was stored in text files, in a database, or handwritten on pink post-it notes doesn't make much difference.