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From the article: “According to court evidence, the incident began on Feb. 1, 2025, when Muneeb Akhter asked his brother for the plaintext password of a user who had submitted a complaint through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Public Portal.”

Unfalsifiable poop

They’re likely storing hashes. Which you can derive from the password.

Edit: the article says: “According to court evidence, the incident began on Feb. 1, 2025, when Muneeb Akhter asked his brother for the plaintext password of a user who had submitted a complaint through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Public Portal.”

Please don’t downvote if you didn’t read the article.

Well DMCA doesn’t apply outside of the US. Lawyers continually try to enforce it abroad, though, so be sure you pick a web host that adheres to Norwegian law only.

This was recently kinda misrepresented in the media, in my opinion.

Yes, notifications can leave traces. But it’s traces on the device itself that can be forensically extracted. Though notifications are pushed through Apple’s/Google’s servers, the contents are encrypted end-to-end.

I wish this was available for iOS.

I trust Signal and like it a lot, but I do wish they’d remove the stupid MobileCoin rubbish.

After the train does its part, there’s still trucks needed to bring the freight to its final destination.