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Title    At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent
Date    Sunday April 08 2018, @02:07PM
Author    Fnord666
Topic   
from the easier-to-check-that-way dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/04/07/1717212

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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