Bamboo fails to connect with special characters in the password field (particularly '&')

Bamboo seems to parse password at '&'

From Customer ticket:

This blog post discuss how to use Bitbucket repositories in Bamboo:

http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/07/24/continuous-integration-bamboo-ondemand-bitbucket/

Here is the error that I receive in my build when I use https://bitbucket.org/baschmedia/gizmofolioservice:

System Error Details
Build GIZMOFOLIO - GIZMOFOLIO - Default Job 2 : Executing Task 'Checkout Default Repository(1)' of type com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.vcs:task.vcs.checkout.
(java.lang.RuntimeException : com.atlassian.bamboo.repository.RepositoryException: Cannot fetch branch '(unresolved) 01d9cd88b5e40c2992d0e5537223488485aa8b67' from 'https://bitbucket.org/baschmedia/gizmofolioservice' to source directory 'C:\build-dir\GIZMOFOLIO-GIZMOFOLIOBUILD-JOB1'. command 'c:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\git.exe' ls-remote https://baschmedia:Kf%40&7q%2FvU1W&VglSNS5hEhBUcRQOx8C!ovL*y%5CZxSRAmG8''%5C=9H0%5E%6023SU%25$wmy@bitbucket.org/baschmedia/gizmofolioservice failed with code 1. Working directory was [C:\build-dir\GIZMOFOLIO-GIZMOFOLIOBUILD-JOB1]., stderr: [error: Couldn't resolve host 'baschmedia:Kf%40' while accessing https://baschmedia:Kf%40/info/refs, fatal: HTTP request failed, '7q%2FvU1W' is not recognized as an internal or external command,, operable program or batch file., 'VglSNS5hEhBUcRQOx8C!ovL*y%5CZxSRAmG8''%5C' is not recognized as an internal or external command,, operable program or batch file.])