NEW YORK (1010 WINS/AP) — Facebook confirmed that it had stored millions of user passwords in plain text for years after a security researcher posted about the issue online.
Facebook says there is no evidence that employees had abused access to this data. The company says the passwords were stored on internal company servers, no outsiders could access them. But the incident reveals a huge oversight for the company amid a slew of bruises and stumbles in the last couple of years.
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Facebook said in a blog post it will notify "hundreds of millions of Facebook Lite users, tens of millions of other Facebook users, and tens of thousands of Instagram users" whose passwords were found to be stored this way.
The security blog KrebsOnSecurity says some 600 million Facebook users may have had their passwords stored in plain text.
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