Google Says Some G Suite User Passwords Were Stored In Plaintext Since 2005

Peter Reutemann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.waikato
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'Google says a small number of its enterprise customers mistakenly had
their passwords stored on its systems in plaintext. The exact number
was not disclosed. "We recently notified a subset of our enterprise G
Suite customers that some passwords were stored in our encrypted
internal systems unhashed," said Google vice president of engineering
Suzanne Frey.

Slashdot reader pegdhcp appears to be one of the users impacted by
this security lapse:

I am sharing a message that I received from G Suite, redacted. They
are having some serious problem... If you missed the message or
somehow tend to ignore sometimes extremely frequent and unnecessary G
Suite messages like I do, this one can be important depending on your
settings.'

-- source: https://it.slashdot.org/story/19/05/21/223208

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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