https://hackingpassion.com/tags/password-manager/Recent content in Password-Manager on HackingPassion.com : root@HackingPassion.com-[~]HugoenTue, 05 May 2026 10:56:56 +0200https://hackingpassion.com/microsoft-edge-cleartext-passwords/Tue, 05 May 2026 10:56:56 +0200https://hackingpassion.com/microsoft-edge-cleartext-passwords/<p><strong>Microsoft Edge loads every saved password into memory the moment the browser opens.</strong> They sit there in plain readable text for the entire session, even for sites that are never visited during that session. <strong>Microsoft&rsquo;s official response: this is by design.</strong></p> <p>A security researcher who goes by <strong>@L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N</strong> decided to test every major Chromium-based browser to see how each one actually handles stored credentials while running. He went through them one by one. <strong>Edge was the only browser he found behaving this way.</strong> He took his findings to the BigBiteOfTech conference on April 29, presented them there with Palo Alto Networks Norway, and then posted a proof-of-concept video on May 4 that pulled in 5,900 responses within hours. He also put a small tool on GitHub called <strong>EdgeSavedPasswordsDumper</strong> so anyone could check this on their own machine.</p>