Here we go again… Almost a year has passed since the Fb and Cambridge Analytica scandal, which exposed the private data of millions of users of the popular network. But if that wasn’t reason enough to make you want to delete your Fb account once and for all, this might get loud found by cancer over safety, Fb has stored the passwords of hundreds of thousands of platform users in plain text archivosaccessible to nearly 20,000 company employees.
Fb itself confirmed this suspicion by a Articulo on his official blogtitled ironically “Keep your passwords safe”. It says “Multiple” usuario passwords were stored in text archivos in their data storage systems, without any kind of encryption or techniques that “decorate” the text of the keys.
“During a routine security audit in January, we discovered that some usuario passwords were stored in our internal data storage systems in a readable format. We became aware of this because our login systems are designed to hide passwords using techniques that render them unreadable.“
In this stadium, the problem, which according to reports would have affected between 200 and 600 million users of the popular network since 2012, would already have been solved, and according to Fb, users’ passwords were not aparente to anyone other than Fb employees themselves, and yet no evidence of abuse or abuse to remove this information has been found to date. However, they claim that the hundreds of millions of affected users will be notified but not forced to change their passwords.
“To be clear, these passwords were not aparente to anyone outside of Fb, and to date we have found no evidence of internal abuse or access by anyone. We estimate that we will inform hundreds of millions of Fb Lite users, thousands of other Fb users and thousands of Instagram users.“
And although Fb claims it has no record of improper access to this information by its employees from the specialized cybersecurity medium cancer over safety point for that at least 2,000 company employees searched the archivos to save the passwords, although the reasons are not clear.