Bogus "account hacked" message

[Pete Turnbull]

On 08/01/2019 21:37, alan--- via cctalk wrote:
> 
> There is a special place in hell for spammers.  There is an even more 
> special place lower in hell for web site builders that store plain-text 
> passwords rather than a one-way salted hash of a password.

Oh, there's a worse hell -- I hope -- for the sort of Unix sysadmin (I 
won't mention Aaron's name ;-)) put in charge of a sizeable HPC cluster, 
decided to password protect it to ensure only a certain set of users 
would have access, somehow copied the passwords they used on the main 
system, and stored them in plain text on a related machine for his 
access control.

He no longer works for the enterprise in question.

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Pete
Pete Turnbull