Facebook saved bad millions of passwords

Facebook saved bad millions of passwords

The social network recognizes that it stored the keys of hundreds of millions of users in plain text without applying any type of encryption, although it says that security failures have not occurred.

  Facebook has acknowledged that the passwords of hundreds of millions of users had been stored on internal servers without encryption, but said no security breaches had occurred.

"We have solved the problem and, as a precautionary measure, we have warned all those whose passwords were stored in this way," Facebook said in a statement, explaining that normally their systems should have encrypted them.

  The social media giant intends to warn "hundreds of millions of users of Facebook Lite", a lesser version of the site for regions of the world with a lower quality internet connection, "to tens of millions" of other Facebook users and tens of thousands of Instagram users, "he said in the statement.

"These passwords were never visible to anyone outside of Facebook and, to date, we have not found evidence that someone has abused internally or improperly accessed them," reiterated the social network, whose image is already tarnished by its management of the personal data of its users, especially since the outbreak of the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018.

According to the cybersecurity site KrebsOnSecurity, some 20,000 Facebook employees have had access, in some cases for years, to hundreds of millions of passwords stored in the form of normal text.

Months ago, Facebook had recognized that hackers could access the accounts of tens of millions of users because of a bug, a computer flaw.