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Are you nuts? Domain Registrar Hover.com stores Account Passwords in plain text!

Posted by DomainGang on July 4, 2011, at 6:37 pm

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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