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[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We have a system that mails your password if you change it. It's just for internal users, but still.

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That means those suckers are either stored plaintext or stored with decryption key that is somewhere within the server. Yeesh.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 8 points 3 months ago

"if you change it". It might send the email before storing it as a salted hash in the DB. Unlikely, but possible.