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by tzhenghao 2966 days ago
Hmm why should passwords (hashed or not) be stored in logs though? I don’t see a reason for doing that. You could unset it (and/or other sensitive data) before dumping them into logs.
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They shouldn’t. It was an unintentional bug
They shouldn't. It was a mistake.
Probably logging the HTTP/S requests, which included usernames & passwords in plaintext.