JUST IN: Facebook says it did not properly mask the passwords of hundreds of millions of users and stored them in an internal database that could be accessed by its staff
The company said it discovered the passwords during a security review in January and launched an investigation. Facebook did not say for how long they had been storing passwords in this way.It will be notifying hundreds of millions of Facebook users and tens of thousands of Instagram users if their passwords were involved.
"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," Pedro Canahuati, a Facebook vice president wrote on Thursday.He added that Facebook typically"masks people's passwords when they create an account so that no one at the company can see them."Read MoreThe news was first reported by Krebs on Security.
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