Facebook has just admitted to exposing hundreds of millions of passwords. Find out who is impacted and how to secure your account
cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs, the plaintext passwords had been searchable by Facebook employees in some cases since 2012. An anonymous Facebook employee told Krebs that the firm is probing a series of security failures after employees built applications that logged unencrypted password data for Facebook users and stored it in plain text on internal company servers.
Facebook Lite is a version of Facebook predominantly used by people in regions with lower connectivity. “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,” Canahuati says.In line with security best practices, Facebook masks people’s passwords when they create an account so that no one at the company can see them.”
“With this technique, we can validate that a person is logging in with the correct password without actually having to store the password in plain text,” says Canahuati.This headline might provoke sniggers, and rightly so given Facebook’s track record for breaches and data leaks. It’s true that security on Facebook has not been great in the past: securing yourself while having a Facebook account can be somewhat challenging and some people have chosen to delete their accounts altogether.
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