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13 million plaintext passwords leak from free webhosting firm

Security expert Troy Hunt says 000Webhost was recklessly storing customers’ passwords as plaintext. Hackers exploited an old, vulnerable version of PHP to get their claws on 13 million passwords from the firm’s servers. The firm has not responded to Hunt’s claims that the firm is ‘committed to protecting user information’ But it has finally made some statements about the security breach posting a message on its Facebook page, revealing that the hacker exploited an outdated version of the PHP language. The biggest password problem is not actually dumb, guessable passwords, but reuse.”]

Source: https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/13-million-plaintext-passwords-leak-from-free-webhosting-firm/

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