Facebook employees had access to millions of user passwords

There's that Linux operating system again. Facebook uses
modified CentOS "certified" by RedHat.

The company released a statement Thursday saying it would be
notifying those affected in the near future.

The incident may have affected between 200 million and 600
million customers and has been ongoing since 2012, according to
the report by cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs.

Facebook stored up to 600 million user account passwords without
encryption and viewable as plain text to tens of thousands of
company employees, according to a report Thursday by
cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs.

Facebook confirmed the report in a blog post. Facebook shares
were down less than 1 percent Thursday.

The 600 million users represents a significant portion of
Facebook’s user base of 2.7 billion people. The company said
Thursday it planned to start notifying those affected so they
could change their passwords.

“As part of a routine security review in January, we found that
some user passwords were being stored in a readable format
within our internal data storage systems,” Facebook said in a
statement. “This caught our attention because our login systems
are designed to mask passwords using techniques that make them
unreadable. We have fixed these issues and as a precaution we
will be notifying everyone whose passwords we have found were
stored in this way.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/face...had-access-to-
millions-of-user-passwords.html

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