Insane, but far too common
Comment on US Credit Union Service Leaks Millions of Records and Passwords in Plain Text
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 8 months agoI once had a professional licence that required me to register a whole bunch of personal info to a government website. I used a password generator to create a 32 character password when creating my account.
I tried to login after creating my account but my password wouldn’t work. I hit “forgot my password” and got my password emailed to me in plain text. That alone was worrisome but then I realized my password wasnt working because they truncated it to 8 characters, which I’m assuming is the maximum password length.
I emailed their tech support about my concerns and they emailed back asking if I needed help to login. I said no, I had concerns over security and I never got a reply back. Every few months I’d hit “forgot my password” to see if anything changed. I always got my password emailed to me in plaintext.
InformalTrifle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
b1g_bake@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
This for real. Generate a 30 character random and hit an error. Ohh… max length is 16? I’m not sure why there was even a limit on password length to begin with.
Evkob@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Why in the hell are government and bank logins literally the least secure logins I have??
My bank doesn’t let you set an actual password, only a 6 digit pin, and the only 2FA available is SMS codes. I have better security on Lemmy than I do for my fuckin’ financial institution!
InformalTrifle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yea, they do seem to be some of the worst offenders
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Because both industries use such horrible, outdated software and are riddled with so much bureaucracy that no good programmer would want to work there.
Evkob@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Sounds like a bit of a chicken & egg scenario to me.