The social media giant said that it is notifying users whose passwords it stored in plain text, which made them accessible for Facebook employees to view.
Hundreds of millions of Facebook user passwords have been stored in plain text for years, the social media giant acknowledged on Thursday.
KrebsOnSecurity, which first reported the news, said that specifically between 200 and 600 million passwords were stored in plain text as early as 2012, and were searchable by thousands of Facebook employees. Plain text means that the stored passwords are unencrypted, meaning they can be easily accessed and read by people who had access to Facebookâs internal data storage systems.
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