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At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday April 08 2018, @02:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the easier-to-check-that-way dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/04/another-day-another-breach-at-what-point-does-storing-passwords-in-plaintext-become-criminally-negligent/

The third largest breach ever just happened in Finland. Passwords were stored in plaintext. At T-Mobile Austria, they explain that of course they store the password in plaintext, but they have so good security so it's nothing to worry about. At what point does this become criminally negligent?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 08 2018, @04:47PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 08 2018, @04:47PM (#663983)

    What Kashmir did was a crime, even though the security of the MICR line is nil. That could get her deported.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @05:56AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @05:56AM (#664223)

    And so? Same for illegal abuse of passwords/accounts.

    The issue is the US banks are/were using ZERO FACTOR authentication/authorization that's exposed to the public on a regular basis and even that's not considered criminally negligent but standard practice. Whereas at least in this Finland case, passwords are used (1-Factor) and though it's plaintext it's not regularly exposed to the public.

    So if the US banks aren't going down for criminal negligence for being so insecure and sloppy for such important stuff why should storing passwords in plaintext but not in public for not as important stuff be considered criminally negligent?