Perhaps we should all change our Facebook passwords to play it safe, following news that Facebook kept, from as early as 2012, “hundreds of millions” of user account passwords in plain text, making them available to some 20,000 employees, writes KrebsOnSecurity following a tip from a source at Facebook.
According to Brian Krebs, Facebook is looking into a number of application “security failures” that led to the logging and storage of unencrypted password data on the internal network. This glitch may have affected between 200 million and 600 million accounts, but the company is still investigating before it reveals the exact number of exposed passwords, as well as details on the timeframe or employees who may have accessed the data.
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