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Facebook Confirms It Stored Millions of Passwords In Plain Text. You Should Change Your Password Right Now

Facebook isn’t exactly well known for having the best security practices and now, another blunder has surfaced. On Thursday, a report from Krebs on Security revealed the company had stored hundreds of millions of users’ passwords for Facebook, Facebook Lite, and Instagram in plain text, making user passwords accessible to thousands of Facebook employees. Usually, passwords are encrypted when they’re stored through a process called hashing , but Facebook had a “series of security failures” that left people’s password information wide open, according to the Krebs report. Pedro Canahuati, Facebook’sVP of Engineering, Security, and Privacy, confirmed the breach in a blog titled “Keeping Passwords Secure”, writing, “As part of a routine security review in January, we found that some user passwords were being stored in a readable format within our internal data storage systems.” This may not seem like a big deal, because the company said there’s no sign that the passwords were visible to...

Mar 22, 2019