Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

In addition, as we were troubleshooting new G Suite customer sign-up flows, we discovered that starting in January 2019 we had inadvertently stored a subset of unhashed passwords in our secure encrypted infrastructure. These passwords were stored for a maximum of 14 days.

Is this another way of saying they stored cleartext passwords? Interesting they choose to use "uncashed" instead of "cleartext"



They are probably not saying "cleartext" because the data was still encrypted, just not hashed.




Consider applying for YC's Summer 2026 batch! Applications are open till May 4

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: