I 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.
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!
Because both industries use such horrible, outdated software and are riddled with so much bureaucracy that no good programmer would want to work there.
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.
As many times as it’s come out that some service stored passwords as plaintext you’d think people would learn. People should be fired for this, unfortunately it would probably be the wrong ones.
Still, 2024 and they’re storing plaintext passwords?
I 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.
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!
Yea, they do seem to be some of the worst offenders
Because both industries use such horrible, outdated software and are riddled with so much bureaucracy that no good programmer would want to work there.
Sounds like a bit of a chicken & egg scenario to me.
Insane, but far too common
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.
As many times as it’s come out that some service stored passwords as plaintext you’d think people would learn. People should be fired for this, unfortunately it would probably be the wrong ones.