Facebook Stored Millions Of User Passwords In Plain, Readable Text
The information was held in a readable format within the company's internal data storage systems. Facebook says it "found no evidence to date" of abuse.
by Sasha Ingber
Mar 21, 2019
2 minutes
Unknown to hundreds of millions of Facebook users, their passwords were sitting in plain text inside the company's data storage, leaving them vulnerable to potential employee misuse and cyberattack for years.
"To be clear, these passwords were never visible to anyone outside of Facebook and we have found no evidence to date Thursday.
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