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Facebook stored millions of passwords unencrypted

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/22/2019 08:57 AM | source: facebook | 24 comment(s)
Facebook stored millions of passwords unencrypted

The credit for c***up of the year goes to Facebook. The company keeps promising things but as it now turns out it stored the passwords of hundreds of millions of users completely unencrypted, yes that would be plain text on internal servers readable to anyone who had access to the server and files.

According to the official press release of Facebook "hundreds of millions of users of Facebook Light, tens of millions of other Facebook users and tens of thousands of Instagram users are informed" that their password has been affected by the incident.

Facebook already noted that during a "routine security check " in January that "some passwords" were mistakenly stored in a readable format on the company's internal data stores, and thus not in unencrypted form. Meanwhile, "the bug" has been fixed, affected users would now be informed about security, so Facebook. The company assures that the passwords were not visible outside the company and there is no evidence that they have been misused by employees. Nevertheless, if you have received the notification, you should immediately change your passwords on Facebook and Instagram.

According to the information provided by the security researchers of Krebs on Security, the number of affected accounts is estimated at 200 to 600 million. According to an anonymous Facebook source, more than 20,000 Facebook employees potentially have access to passwords stored in plain text.







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cryohellinc
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#5652950 Posted on: 03/22/2019 09:05 AM
Oh I bet Russian hackers are somehow involved "sarcasm"

Moto_Life
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#5652962 Posted on: 03/22/2019 09:31 AM
I use random passwords for everything so when something like this happens i have nothing to worry about except in the one instance.

emperorsfist
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#5652966 Posted on: 03/22/2019 09:36 AM
Oops

Noisiv
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#5652972 Posted on: 03/22/2019 09:52 AM
as if those who thrive on airing their sht to the rest of the world require privacy.

fantaskarsef
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#5652980 Posted on: 03/22/2019 10:04 AM
Take 762?

user1
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#5652985 Posted on: 03/22/2019 10:17 AM
gee i wonder why *cough cough* nsa *cough cough*

sverek
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#5652988 Posted on: 03/22/2019 10:30 AM
he credit for c***up of the year goes to Facebook.

cockup?

How the hell developers miss password protection. Doesn't seem like a "Bug" to me.

mbk1969
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#5652993 Posted on: 03/22/2019 10:46 AM
cockup?

How the hell developers miss password protection. Doesn't seem like a "Bug" to me.

I bet it was intentional - an attempt to repel the hackers with self-respect.

deusex
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#5653030 Posted on: 03/22/2019 12:34 PM
Ehh deleted my account years ago.

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#5653044 Posted on: 03/22/2019 01:08 PM
The one place i thought security and privacy were their major concern. lol

Koniakki
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#5653082 Posted on: 03/22/2019 02:18 PM
Any affected are welcome to a thread we have in the forums: So who has deleted their Facebook ? :p

lucidus
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#5653083 Posted on: 03/22/2019 02:19 PM
Ugh. Glad I deleted my account 4 years ago and stopped making useless accounts on the internet.

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#5653189 Posted on: 03/22/2019 05:36 PM
Ugh. Glad I deleted my account 4 years ago and stopped making useless accounts on the internet.


Good for You. Never had a Facebook account ever.

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#5653194 Posted on: 03/22/2019 05:45 PM
Never had a Facebook account ever.


Same.

Disgracebook

Moto_Life
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#5653210 Posted on: 03/22/2019 06:49 PM
Dont use facebook, Never used facebook. You guys are soooo cool...

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