It’s absolutely mind-boggling to me that in this day and age, companies are still storing passwords in plain text. It’s also mind-boggling to me that RockYou’s database was pwnt by SQL injection — that’s a basic thing every web developer worth their salt should be protecting against. I just can’t believe that a venture funded company (by Sequoia and Lightspeed, no less) fails so hard.
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RockYou Hack: From Bad To Worse – TechCrunch
It’s absolutely mind-boggling to me that in this day and age, companies are still storing passwords in plain text. It’s also mind-boggling to me that RockYou’s database was pwnt by SQL injection — that’s a basic thing every web developer worth their salt should be protecting against. I just can’t believe that a venture funded company (by Sequoia and Lightspeed, no less) fails so hard.