hashing-passwords

Not malware — this is an instructional or demonstrative file containing multiple critical secret-handling anti-patterns. If these patterns were used in production they would create high-severity risks: credential theft, compliance violations, and account takeover. Immediate remediation: remove storage of third‑party credentials, stop using base64 as protection, stop returning plaintext passwords, and migrate password handling to a KDF (Argon2/bcrypt/scrypt) with per-user salts and proper secret management.