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More reasons to store NOTHING on the Internet: Facebook exposes hundreds of millions of user login/passwords IN CLEARTEXT since 2012!



 
 
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Old March 24th 19, 02:45 AM posted to comp.mobile.android,misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.sys.mac.system,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default More reasons to store NOTHING on the Internet: Facebook exposes hundreds of millions of user login/passwords IN CLEARTEXT since 2012!

New York Times:
o Facebook Did Not Securely Store Passwords. Heres What You Need to Know
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/technology/personaltech/facebook-passwords.html

*Yet another reason to engage your brain & store NOTHING on the Internet.*

From two to six hundred million username/passwords were stored in the clear
o (no hash, no salt, no nothing).
o All in plain vanilla text files since 2012!
o Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/facebook-stored-hundreds-of-millions-of-user-passwords-in-plain-text-for-years/

Facebook says nobody "improperly" accessed the files, even as there were
apparently over 9 million internal queries by over 2,000 Facebook engineers
on the data (according to blogger Brian Krebs).
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/21/705588364/facebook-stored-millions-of-user-passwords-in-plain-readable-text

Apparently the security gaff affects
o Facebook users
o Facebook lite users
o Instagram users
etc.

Bear in mind GitHub did the same thing recently:
o GitHub says bug exposed some plaintext passwords
https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-says-bug-exposed-account-passwords/

As did Twitter:
o Twitter to All Users: Change Your Password Now!
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/twitter-to-all-users-change-your-password-now/

*Yet another reason to engage your brain & store NOTHING on the Internet.*
 




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