Typically, companies only keep the "hash" of your password. This involves sending the password through an algorithm that scrambles the characters into what appears to be random text. In the event a ...

Identity services provider Okta is facing serious security flaws, researchers contend, that could easily let an attacker gain remote access to the platform, extract plaintext passwords, impersonate ...

In a case of convenience for users trumping security, Starbucks has been storing the passwords for its mobile-payment app, along with geolocation data, in clear text Editor’s note: Starbucks later ...

The company is dancing around the question of what it knew and when it knew it, but the security problem was not a revelation for it this week When Starbucks published the new version of its iOS ...

The Robinhood stock trading site is alerting users that passwords were stored in their system in human readable format, otherwise known as clear text. While no foul play was detected, this could have ...