In a blog post published on Thursday 21st March 2019, Facebook admitted that millions of its users’ passwords were stored internally as plain text - making them easily accessible to more than 20,000 employees. Ironically, the blog post was titled “Keeping Passwords Secure.”
Krebs Security first reported the data breach and an anonymous Facebook source told them that passwords for anywhere between 200 Million and 600 Million Facebook users were left unsecured - from as far back as 2012. Facebook claims its internal investigation has not found evidence that employees abused access to this data.
Facebook said it will notify affected users, which include people who used Facebook Lite, Facebook, and Instagram.
In the course of our review, we have been looking at the ways we store certain other categories of information — like access tokens — and have fixed problems as we’ve discovered them. There is nothing more important to us than protecting people’s information, and we will continue making improvements as part of our ongoing security efforts at Facebook. We are a small operation. If you've found our articles to be informative, please consider supporting us via PayPal or buying us a coffee. Your contribution is incredibly appreciated and goes a long way. Simply sharing our articles also helps us. Sign up for our free WhatsApp Alerts to be notified as soon as we post breaking news. NEW! Check out our Merchandise Store for high-quality t-shirts, hats and more!
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