Danish graduate student says he stumbled upon usernames and passwords of 100,000 IEEE members. Log data appears to have been publicly available for at least a month before he found it. IEEE says it is aware of an incident regarding “inadvertent access to unencrypted log files containing user IDs and passwords” IEEE has terminated access to accounts with current passwords and users will be required to create a new one next time they attempt to log into their accounts, the organization says. The breach is embarrassing for IEEE as it’s a mistake — storing login credentials in plain text — should be avoided.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2132285/researcher-finds-100k-passwords–user-ids–on-ieee-site.html