>Hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees — in some cases going back to 2012, KrebsOnSecurity has learned
OH NONONONONONONONONO *BREATHES IN*
>The Facebook source said the investigation so far indicates between 200 million and 600 million Facebook users may have had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by more than 20,000 Facebook employees. The source said Facebook is still trying to determine how many passwords were exposed and for how long, but so far the inquiry has uncovered archives with plain text user passwords in them dating back to 2012.
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>My Facebook insider said access logs showed some 2,000 engineers or developers made approximately nine million internal queries for data elements that contained plain text user passwords.
>In an interview with KrebsOnSecurity, Facebook software engineer Scott Renfro said the company wasn’t ready to talk about specific numbers — such as the number of Facebook employees who could have accessed the data.
Tutor for one of our entry-level IT-monkey courses from time to time >just USE this %CORPORATION-cloud for exchanging personal files and publishing photos lmao it's easy and free look at my travel photos
We are only starting with terrible botnet security cataclysms and I'm almost not worried (that some of my shit is on there).
Ayden Ward
Literally any other company would go bankrupt after this
Nicholas Brown
Is this even news at this point? Is anybody honestly surprised about seeing facebook doing this kind of shit again?
>Affects hundreds of millions of users of Facebook Lite, the service designed for users in developing countries with low bandwidth
So this was some Pajeet programmer working on an Indian app taking a short cut out of laziness and storing the passwords in plain text. What a surprise
Aiden Hughes
does it really matter? I literally just use a simple password for facebook because who fucking cares if it gets hacked
Brayden Garcia
dadada
Justin Collins
How does something like that even happen?
Nathaniel Ramirez
Pajeets.
Justin Ramirez
>plebonsecurity
Daniel Edwards
> debug = on > app is shipped > five years later, some engineers decided to run du -sh /* to see what was eating 2TB of diskspace > it's a debug log with every detail in cleartext So, kind of like that.
Glowies need their state-mandated up-to-date password list
Samuel Clark
Let's put it this way -- they have a record of selling users private data.
Jaxson Clark
There's no room for any more nails on that fucking coffin
Carter Cox
The rich are above the law
Colton Jackson
Too big to fail. Nobody will dare to hold them accountable for this. You could show that Facebook employees fap to private nudes of 12 year olds and politicians would look the other way, some probably asking for access.