Had to share this for the lulz (Patreon)
Published:
2018-04-08 18:30:47
Imported:
2022-07
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T-Mobile Austria apparently stores their user's passwords in Plain text, which came to light after a customer service rep said that reps could only see the first 4 characters of anyone's password.
This means they aren't hashing and salting passwords like they should.
This is a horrid example of what -not- to do in customer service, let alone security: https://twitter.com/tmobileat/status/981785213549383680
And, well, when you say your company has "amazing security", infosec pros are bound to start hunting to prove you wrong: https://twitter.com/hanno/status/982530560512978946