Facebook said it had left “hundreds of millions” of users’ passwords exposed in plain text, potentially visible to the company’s employees, marking another major privacy and security headache for a tech giant already under fire.
Facebook said it would notify users of its namesake social network, and of its photo-sharing site Instagram, that they had been affected.
Facebook said it believed the passwords were not visible to anyone outside the company, and had no evidence that its employees “internally abused or improperly accessed them” — but said it would notify users of its namesake social network, and of its photo-sharing site Instagram, that they had been affected., which said the problem began in 2012 and estimated that the total number of affected users ranged between 200 million and 600 million. Facebook declined Thursday to confirm the estimate.
Like most companies, Facebook said it stores passwords in a way that’s supposed to make them unreadable using a technique called hashing. But a January security review, detailed inThursday, found they were actually stored in a readable format. Facebook said it has since fixed the problem. It said that most affected were users of Facebook Lite, a stripped-down version of the social network that’s largely in use in countries with lower internet connection speeds.
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