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Hmm why should passwords (hashed or not) be stored in logs though? I don’t see a reason for doing that. You could unset it (and/or other sensitive data) before dumping them into logs.


They shouldn’t. It was an unintentional bug


They shouldn't. It was a mistake.


Probably logging the HTTP/S requests, which included usernames & passwords in plaintext.




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