Adobe’s October 2013 data breach was one of the largest breaches of username databases ever. 150,000,000 records were exposed and Adobe had been storing its users passwords ineptly. This article is not a programming tutorial with example code you can copy to use on your own server. Instead, it is a guide to how to store passwords in a secure database. We offer a two-and-a-half-page guide on how to do it right: store passwords unencrypted and encrypt.”]