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

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The Register – Security

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.…

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