Apple just fixed a High Sierra bug that's so bad its embarrassing

Apple issued an update for its High Sierra desktop operating system on Thursday. 

Called the “macOS High Sierra 10.13 Supplemental Update,” the new update fixes two dangerous bugs in High Sierra, both of which exposed user passwords in some way.

Naked Security has a great technical explanation of the first bug Apple fixed with the High Sierra update. In the simplest of terms, with the bug, if you created a new APFS (Apple File System) encrypted volume on High Sierra, and set anything at all as the password hint, then your password was stored as the hint. In plain text. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Apple just fixed a High Sierra bug that's so bad its embarrassing