Facebook has stored millions of passwords as text

Mark Zuckerberg's social network is again under the microscope. Facebook recently posted this information in an entry on his official blog.

Executive of Facebook revealed that the social network stored Pbadwords Millions of users in plain text form and without any security or encryption.

Pedro Canahuati, vice president of engineering, security and privacy of Facebook, announced that the social network had neglected to keep the keys of its users under a reliable system of virtual protection. Despite the risk, Canahuati He clarified that he did not know that such sensitive information could be obtained by someone outside the company.

According to KrebsOnSecurity PortalFacebook's pbadwords were stored irresponsibly since 20120.

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Facebook has responded to this latest information stating that it would not force the affected users to renew their pbadword, but insists that change It is recommended as a positive activity for any type of Internet user.

This recent case adds to Facebook's long list of vulnerabilities since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a marketing company that used data from 50 million Facebook users fraudulently in 2014.

Source: depor.com