Urgent change: Facebook has stored hundreds of millions of passwords in plain text for years
from David Wurm 
on March 21, 2019, 21:05 | Write a comment
The data leaks on Facebook never end. In the most recent case, millions of user passwords were stored unencrypted and were for employees proclearly visible in plain text. Facebook Lite users are particularly affected.
What the giant allows himself over and over again in terms of data security is really a joke. First last year in April the huge data leak became known. A new, huge dataproproblem is known since today. It should be noted that Facebook Problem itself "added" in the blog has, but the error was already noticed at the beginning of 2019. For a company of this size, however, this has to be taken for granted anyway. Specifically, "hundreds of millions of Facebook Lite users, tens of millions of other Facebook users and tens of thousands of Instagram users" are likely to be affected, according to a company spokesman.
Allegedly no misuse of data, but urgently change your password
According to Facebook, affected users will be notified in the coming days. However, there are no indications that someone has improperly accessed passwords internally. The passwords were also not visible to anyone outside the company, so on. Nevertheless, we recommend that all users change their password immediately and set a new, unique password for Facebook. You should also not use the same passwords on multiple platforms. Two-factor authentication is also advisable. David has what a 2FA is and how it works in this guide explained.
Errors have now been corrected, 20 employees had access to up to 000 million passwords
the dataproThe problem was noticed during a routine check in January 2019. The error has now been fixed. Like security expert Brian Krebs on his blog "KrebsonSecurity" moreover writes traces of this go Problems back to 2012. According to a Facebook insider, around 2.000 developers had made around nine million internal queries for data elements that contained unprotected passwords. In addition, around 20 employees would have had access to plain text passwords from between 000 million and 200 million users for years.
Such an incident must not remain without consequences for Facebook. It is therefore to be hoped that there will be appropriate investigations here. One does not seem to learn from past mistakes. So the only solution left is his Delete Facebook account and to avoid the social network completely. Unfortunately, the group also includes platforms such as WhatsApp and Instagram.
