Facebook stored hundreds of millions of passwords in plain text for up to seven years

Facebook stored hundreds of millions of passwords in plain text for up to seven years

Security-related Facebook-related Facebook has been upset in recent months. Due to data leaks and security problems, it is criticized on Facebook.

The latest news about Facebook has been that Facebook has secured millions of user passwords in simple text files for 7 years. By 2012, all passwords were accessible to 20,000 employees of Facebook.

Internal-based sources say that the company had saved 200 to 600 million passwords in this manner. No company reserves users' passwords in such a way as Facebook has done for years.

Facebook stored hundreds of millions of passwords in plain text for up to seven years

Facebook did not tell the number of users whose password was protected in that way. The company says millions of users of Facebook Lite, millions of Facebook users and thousands of users of Instagram were saved in this way.

Facebook is now informing all such users.

The company has acknowledged that its employees had access to Passwords, but no such evidence has been found till today, which suggests that their password has been deliberately tested. The year was found in January, then the company has removed all the troubles.