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eequah9Ltoday at 8:31 AM1 replyview on HN

> Over the past few months, our former payment provider Nexi S.p.A. (“Nexi”) requested access to private data, which we understood to be specifically the usernames and passwords of our supporters.

I must be missing something, but why is there an expectation that clear text passwords would even be known?


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rcxdudetoday at 9:54 AM

Probably because most people haven't internalized how password hashing works.