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		ikeboy on Feb 22, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Answers to your questions about Apple and security But then the data was on Apple's servers, and could possibly be recovered with data recovery. Also, I doubt Apple deletes that when there's no need to. I know Google stores previous passwords, and will alert you if you try logging in with a previous password.

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ikeboy on Feb 22, 2016 | [–]

Hashes or whatever. The point is they have the ability to tell if I typed in an old password, so they must store some form of it somewhere.

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