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Chrome extensions can steal plaintext passwords from websites (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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[–] leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 1 points 1 year ago

the analysis showed that 190 extensions (some with over 100k downloads) directly access password fields and store values in a variable, suggesting that some publishers may already be trying to exploit the security gap.

That's the scary bit. This field has been accessible for quite some time...