google security ROTFL
https://engadget.com/2019/05/...

Well, to be perfectly honest my guess is it's piece of legacy code (in 2005 nobody would be suprised someone stored plaintext passwords) leftover that they sweeped. That's what happenes when your codebase is so huge.

Anyway, it's actually pretty good that they discovered it after so much time, bc means nobody accessed it or even been really aware of its existance (or they pretend it on purpose LOL)

And big + that they without breach take actions as precaution. That's good on Google's side IMHO.

Yet, no plaintext passwords ever ever would be better ofc.

@DubbaThony other plain passwords were stored since January 2019

@dontbeevil Well, still they were open about it. IDK why that happened, but still it's not as bad as say blizard where at one point you could use lower or uppercase letters for password. CI database hihihi.