"Plaintext" refers to any piece of information or text that is not encrypted or scrambled. It is the original form of data that can be easily read and understood by humans without any special methods or decoding. Full definition
Twitter has apologized after it discovered that it had been inadvertently storing users» passwords in plaintext in an internal log, potentially putting them at risk. (cuinfosecurity.com)
When running Nikto, you have the ability to save all findings in plaintext files by using the - Save option. (cirt.net)
So Hunt looked at some of the bcrypt hashes from the original Dropbox data and then looked at the corresponding plaintext password from the data trove. (cuinfosecurity.com)