In a blog post titled “Keeping Passwords Secure,' Facebook explained that it had not.
the data breach, that its internal investigation has not found evidence that employees abused access to this data. The company 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," the company ."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."Krebs Security that anywhere between 200 million and 600 million Facebook users may have had their account passwords stored in plain text, which would have made them accessible to more than 20,000 Facebook employees.
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