Google Docs password leak reveals a costly security mistake

Passwords have a way of ending up in places they were never meant to live. Sometimes convenience wins in the moment, and security becomes tomorrow's problem. One company learned that lesson after a contractor stored credentials in a Google Doc so they could access them from different devices.

Then something happened that should make anyone who uses Google Docs take a closer look at their sharing settings. A developer searching the company's domain on Google saw one of its staging hostnames...