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Michael Morehouse • Edited

Master password for key company database replicated, in plain text, into 1000s of files in a repo most employees were automatically given read access to.

I once did a grep -r for that password on the shared root ... I had to kill it and cry a little once it'd passed 10,000 hits.

Been a long, long time since I worked there.