It’s time to change your GitHub Plaintext Password! (And on all the sites using it)

Ax Sharma
2 min readMay 2, 2018
Email sent from GitHub on Tuesday, May 1st 2018

On a regular Tuesday, while reviewing pull requests and approving them, I realized I got a “404” page upon submitting the comment — hmm, probably a session aka cache-and-cookies error. I coincidentally hovered over to my Gmail tab to see an email from GitHub Security which had just arrived (“0 minutes ago”) and it looked like GitHub forcefully…

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