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Facebook passwords were evidently accessible in plain text

I’m going to quote this article, and here’s a link to the Facebook response, but the TL;DR is that FB developers/peeps had access to plain text passwords of millions of users.

My Facebook insider said access logs showed some 2,000 engineers or developers made approximately nine million internal queries for data elements that contained plain text user passwords.

Krebs on Security

So yeah, now we know why grandma’s been kicking ass on Twitch and calling uncle Jamie a choad.

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Paul E King

Paul King started with GoodAndEVO in 2011, which merged with Pocketables, and as of 2018 he's evidently the owner. He lives in Nashville, works at a film production company, is married with two kids. Facebook | Twitter | Donate | More posts by Paul | Subscribe to Paul's posts

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