As Facebook suffers security breach after breach after breach after breach without any consequence and continues to grow rapidly, it suggests that as a society we simply no longer care about our data being stolen, raising questions about the future of cybersecurity.
It is truly breathtaking that a company of Facebook’s size and influence failed to notice that it was logging user passwords in cleartext for more than seven years and that those passwords had been exposed in more than 9 million searches over that time period.
It is even more important to remember that almost all of the company’s breaches to date have involved the data of its users, not Facebook’s own data. The vector through which the breach occurred, developer logging, reminds us of how easy it is for even the most sensitive information to leak across a company through improper logging practices. Gone are the days when companies didn’t think twice about transferring user credentials in the clear and storing them in plaintext in wide-open internet-connected databases with default passwords .
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