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StopICE Data Breach Sent Names And Locations of 100,000 Users to The US Government
(www.ibtimes.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2026
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The fact that passwords were leaked must mean they were stored in plaintext, which is fucking security 101 shit. This Sherman Austin dude is either an op, or so profoundly and dangerously incompetent that any other activists should treat him as radioactive and not even trust him to fold zines, much less run a fucking database.
I guess it's also possible the attackers modified the backend server to record and leak the information.