[aryan14]

I’m not sure how it’s even possible to store plaintext passwords in 2024, don’t most systems use a base level of encryption by default?

Also surely someone noticed before they had to be fined, yikes

[giancarlostoro]

They realized in 2019. I'm assuming it wound up in logs somewhere and someone went "why the heck am I seeing prod passwords?"

[Ancalagon]

Absolutely many people must have noticed. It was either technically infeasible to encrypt those (doesn't seem likely). Or the business decided it wasn't worth the investment (more likely).

[jahewson]

Logs.