In the worst security breach in Gawker Media history, a 500mb file containing Gawker’s source code, and employee passwords was released to the internet, compromising email addresses and passwords of hundreds of thousands of users.
Studies show that over 30% of sites store our passwords in plain-text in their database.
We had enough! Today, Omer van Kloeten (@omervk) and myself are announcing Plain Text Offenders - a registry of text offenders - sites which store and/or send our own passwords to us via email in clear text!
We’re tired of websites abusing our trust and storing our passwords in plain text, exposing us to danger. Here we put these websites to shame.
So please go ahead - report offending sites at http://plaintextoffenders.com!