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Was it because his passwords were so long and complicated that he couldn't remember them? Irony.

this happen with me sometimes, i think that no one will think of this file to open or think of its content.

Two mistakes he made 1- the file name is easy to guess 2- he allowed file listening in his server

I asked the guy who did this what the entry point was,

The file name was not guessed, it was a shell command injection on the website, doing a ls listed an interestingly named file "allinfo.txt". Looking at this, it had the ssh username/password...

Cool, that's why it's called HACKER news here :)

You'd think that a self-professed hacker would know about password safes.