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A security researcher found that Edge was storing your plaintext passwords in memory when you used the browser to manage them. In a social media post, researcher Tom Jøran Sønstebyseter Rønning explained how the process worked and posted a video showing it in action.

"When you save passwords in Edge, the browser decrypts every credential at startup and keeps them resident in process memory," Rønning said. "This happens even if you never visit a site that uses those credentials. At the same time, Edge requires you to re‑authenticate before showing those same passwords in the Password Manager UI -- yet the browser process already has them all in plaintext."

On GitHub, Rønning posted the code he created to detect this behavior. Dubbed EdgeSavedPasswordsDumper, the code demonstrates that any credentials stored by someone using the Microsoft Password Manager in Edge are saved in plaintext in the Edge process memory.