Hover.com registrar resets account passwords due to security issue
Domain registrar Hover.com performed a mass resetting of account passwords today, citing a security issue. The email notification sent out today by Hover.com asks account holders to use the “forgot my password” option to change their existing passwords. There is no indication that any particular users’ accounts have been compromised. Here is the full email: […]
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This is just incredible; and it doesn’t come from some sort of deep research, white-hat hacking! Hover.com – a former URL shortener service that became a domain registrar – openly admits to storing account passwords in unencrypted, plain text format! Quoting from the Hover.com web site: Password resets quickly became one of the top concerns […]
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