> El Reg asked Future for some comment on the breach and the reason why the passwords were stored in plaintext and not encrypted. In accordance with FileSilo's security policy, we sent the request in plaintext.
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> We have not heard back. ®
Let's not be too cocky. Until rather recently, certain other sites used to force credentials and session cookies to be submitted in clear text. Glad to see they saw the error of their ways though...