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moconnor on April 16, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Security incident update

Bear in mind this can be as simple as a handful of people emailing their LISH password to support while asking if it is correct etc.

otherdave on April 16, 2013 [–]

Or someone mistakenly logging "Bad LISH Password: 'FOO' for user 'BAR'" somewhere that logs to the DB.

marshray on April 16, 2013 | [–]

Or users accidentally typing their password in the username field.

Nevertheless, this isn't the first time Linode has needed to spend their benefit-of-the-doubt points.

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