There have been exploits in the past where scripts were able to steal autofilled passwords.

They probably stole passwords to our system, and linked directly to us.

So Bean expected to be chewed out for stealing passwords.

The outsourcer made news last year when three former employees at one of its call centers were arrested for stealing passwords from Citibank.

He stole passwords as Harvard users accessed other networks.

The proposal, which laid out a method for stealing passwords to gain free access to the Internet, was rejected.

Crimeware threats can steal passwords cached on a user's system.

Same thing happens with phishing when hackers use email to steal passwords.

At least any bad guy listening to this is going to have some better ideas about how to try to steal passwords.

The results could range from simply crashing the computer to stealing passwords or destroying data.