Facebook stored 'millions' of passwords in plain text
21st March 2019
Security blog KrebsOnSecurity says some 600 million Facebook users may have had their passwords stored in plain text.
(AP)
"To be clear, these passwords were never visible to anyone outside of Facebook and we have found no evidence to date that anyone internally abused or improperly accessed them," vice president of engineering, security, and privacy Pedro Canahuati said in a blog post. Password of 600 million users stored The incident reveals a huge oversight for the company amid a slew of bruises and stumbles in the last couple of years.
The security blog KrebsOnSecurity says some 600 million Facebook users may have had their passwords stored in plain text.
Facebook said in a blog post on Thursday it will likely notify "hundreds of millions" of FacebookLite users, millions of Facebook users and tens of thousands of Instagram users.Source: trtworld.com