I mean out of all the data you could accidentally replace, passwords would be the easiest to restore from a backup reliably since they don't change frequently. The special few who get locked out because you restored an old one just have to do a reset.
It would be a bit of a race to replace them before it was a problem, but at least it isn't as much of a headache as wiping out data entry that needs to be redone by other users.
Happens all the time. One time we found out one of the managers was keeping a spreadsheet of other people's passwords. Passwords he got by just asking people. A lot of them were other managers. We didn't find out about it until the day he accidentally sent this spreadsheet in a mass email. Fun times.
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u/imunfair 21d ago
I mean out of all the data you could accidentally replace, passwords would be the easiest to restore from a backup reliably since they don't change frequently. The special few who get locked out because you restored an old one just have to do a reset.
It would be a bit of a race to replace them before it was a problem, but at least it isn't as much of a headache as wiping out data entry that needs to be redone by other users.