Facebook faces yet another privacy flap
March 23, 2019
10:59 am
This time, the company acknowledges that it mishandled sensitive passwords for hundreds of millions of its users, primarily those who use its Facebook Lite product. The disclosure casts doubt on the company’s abilities to protect its users’ information as it focuses more on privacy.
On Thursday, Facebook (FB) said it didn’t properly mask the passwords of hundreds of millions of its users and stored them as plain text in an internal database that could be accessed by its staff.
The company said it discovered the exposed passwords during a security review in January and launched an investigation. Facebook
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