Google Says Some G Suite User Passwords Were Stored In Plaintext Since 2005

Google says a small number of its enterprise customers mistakenly had their passwords stored on its systems in plaintext. The exact number was not disclosed. 'We recently notified a subset of our enterprise G Suite customers that some passwords were stored in our encrypted internal systems unhashed,' said Google vice president of engineering Suzanne Frey.



Slashdot reader pegdhcp appears to be one of the users impacted by this security lapse: I am sharing a message that I received from G Suite, redacted. They are having some serious problem... If you missed the message or somehow tend to ignore sometimes extremely frequent and unnecessary G Suite messages like I do, this one can be important depending on your settings.
[You can read the full email message (with redactions) below:]

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