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Facebook Admits Storing millions of Passwords in Plain Text
Facebook admitted that millions of passwords were stored in plain text on its internal servers which is a security slip that enables Facebook employees to read the passwords.
"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.
This news was out earlier this year, during a routine security review. He said that the Silicon Valley company expected to notify Facebook, Facebook Lite, and Instagram users whose passwords may be vulnerable to hackers.
Brian Krebs of security news website said an unnamed Facebook source saying the internal investigation indicates that 600 million users of the social network had account passwords stored in plain text files searchable by more than 20,000 employees.
"We have fixed these issues and as a precaution, we will be notifying everyone whose passwords we have found were stored in this way," Canahuati said.
