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londons_explore on April 18, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords in...

If it's a plaintext password, the minute it hits any human eyes, it is IMO compromised and the user should be required to change it. Employee, Interviewee, Hacker - doesn't matter.

itslennysfault on April 19, 2019 [–]

I'd go a step further. IMO the second it hits a hard drive it's compromised so just the act of having that in the log would count.

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