Heads up, if you use home assistant, any credentials in your config have been hoovered up without your knowledge

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[+] [S] -40 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

They have been hoovered up, by home assistant. I made no claim, nor did the source, that clear-text credentials were shipped anywhere.

This is meant to drive awareness on a transparency and dev issue, not an overt compromise. My language was maybe a bit too inflammatory though, I suppose.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    So for as far as I understand it:

    Yes, this is a big issue on the developers part as this should not have happened without consent.

    No, this is not a direct security breach for every and all home assistant users. You do not need to immediately change all your passwords (due to it being partial hashes)

    Did I understand correctly? I'm not that deep into how all this works as I am mostly a enthusiast user without a lot of computer science knowledge

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  • [–] 11 points 3 weeks ago

    No to both.

    Its a long-standing and documented feature. Included in that documentation is how to turn it off, which was added a few years back iirc.

    Its brought up every once in a while by people.who don't understand cryptographic hashes or the hibp tools. Usually with a bunch of posts about how passwords are being leaked (they aren't).

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