GitHub saved plaintext passwords of npm users in log files, post mortem reveals - The Register


5/27/2022 12:00:00 AM3 years 9 months ago
by Richard Speed

Unrelated to the OAuth token attack, but still troubling as org reveals details of around 100,000 users were grabbed by the baddies

GitHub has revealed it stored a "number of plaintext user credentials for the npm registry" in internal logs following the integration of the JavaScript package registry into GitHub's logging systems… [+3747 chars]

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