Facebook apps logged users’ passwords in plaintext, because why not

Facebook apps logged users’ passwords in plaintext, because why not

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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/03/facebook-developers-wrote-apps-that-stored-users-passwords-in-plaintext/

Facebook has mined a lot of data about its users over the years—relationships, political leanings, and even phone call logs. And now it appears Facebook may have inadvertently extracted another bit of critical information: users' login credentials, stored unencrypted on Facebook's servers and accessible to Facebook employees.

Brian Krebs reports that hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their credentials logged in plain text by various applications written by Facebook employees. Those credentials were searched by about 2,000 Facebook engineers and developers more than 9 million times, according to a senior Facebook employee who spoke to Krebs; the employee asked to remain anonymous because they did not have permission to speak to the press on the matter.

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