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This Chrome Extension can steal your password!


Creator Alert Hello Reader, Why this Alert? We are keeping our eye on a Chrome Web extension that could steal passwords from a website's source code. This was recently discovered by a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The team also discovered that numerous websites, including some Google, store passwords in plaintext (that means not encrypted) within the code of their web page. Amongst the top 10,000 websites that they tested, here are some notable website examples...
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