The passwords of up to 600 million users dating back to 2012 were stored as plain text on Facebook servers.
Facebook stored"hundreds of millions" of account passwords without encryption and viewable as plain text to tens of thousands of company employees, according to a report Thursday by cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs.
The incident could have affected as many as 600 million users, a significant portion of Facebook's user base of 2.7 billion people."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 caught our attention because our login systems are designed to mask passwords using techniques that make them unreadable.
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