{"id":6302,"date":"2019-05-28T12:03:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T17:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/?p=6302"},"modified":"2019-05-28T12:03:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T17:03:22","slug":"google-stored-some-passwords-in-plain-text-for-fourteen-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/google-stored-some-passwords-in-plain-text-for-fourteen-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Google stored some passwords in plain text for fourteen years"},"content":{"rendered":"


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In a blog post, Google disclosed that it recently discovered a bug that caused some portion of G Suite users to have their passwords stored in plain text. The bug has been around since 2005, though Google says that it can\u2019t find any evidence that anybody\u2019s password was improperly accessed. It\u2019s resetting any passwords that might be affected and letting G Suite administrators know about the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

G Suite is the corporate version of Gmail and Google\u2019s other apps, and apparently the bug came about in this product because of a feature designed specifically for companies. Early on, it was possible for your company administrator for G Suite apps to set user passwords manually \u2014 say, before a new employee came on board \u2014 and if they did, the admin console would store those passwords in plain text instead of hashing them. Google has since removed that capability from administrators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nRead more at – Google stored some passwords in plain text for fourteen years<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n


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In a blog post, Google disclosed that it recently discovered a bug that caused some portion of G Suite users to have their passwords stored in plain text. The bug has been around since 2005, though Google says that it can\u2019t find any evidence that anybody\u2019s password was improperly accessed. It\u2019s resetting any passwords that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,244],"tags":[1762,1911],"class_list":["post-6302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-password-manager","category-passwords","tag-google","tag-google-password-manager"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p25vfy-1DE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6303,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6302\/revisions\/6303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}