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GitHub accidentally writes clear text user passwords to logs

I just received an eMail from GitHub, stating that they accidentally wrote clear text user passwords to their logs (full eMail body below), when passwords were changed.Hi there,During the course of regular auditing, GitHub discovered that a recently introduced bug exposed a small number of users’ passwords to our internal logging system, including yours. We have corrected this, but you'll need...

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