News - 32,000 Supermicro motherboard passwords exposed as plain text

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Advisory warns that servers expose admin passwords despite patch being issued.

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[AlexKitch]

Any large company exploited for storing user's passwords in plain text should be dragged into court and made to explain themselves. It's just not acceptable.

I've been coding since I was 12 (I'm now 27) and I wouldn't have even dreamed of storing passwords in plain text, even as a 12 year old. It defies belief that a large organisation would think it okay.