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Robinhood stored passwords in plaintext, so change yours now

Author
TechCrunch
Published
Fri 26 Jul 2019
Episode Link
https://omny.fm/shows/techcrunch-startup-news/robinhood-stored-passwords-in-plaintext-so-change

Investment and stock trading app Robinhood stored some user credentials, including passwords, in plaintext on internal systems, the company revealed today. This particularly dangerous security misstep could have seriously exposed its users, though it says that it has no evidence the data was accessed improperly. Better change your password now. Sensitive data like passwords and personal information are generally kept encrypted at all times.
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