Facebook on March 21 admitted that millions of passwords were stored in plain text on its internal servers, a security slip that left them readable by the social networking platform’s employees.
“To be clear, these passwords were never visible to anyone outside of Facebook and we have found no evidence to date that anyone internally abused or improperly accessed them,” Pedro Canahuati, the company’s vice-president of engineering, security, and privacy, said in a blog post.
The blunder was uncovered during a routine security review early this year, according to Mr Canahuati, and comes after a series of controversies centred on whether Facebook properly safeguards the privacy and data of its users.
Mr Canahuati said that the Silicon Valley company expected to notify hundreds of millions of Facebook Lite users, tens of millions of other Facebook users, and tens of thousands of Instagram users whose passwords may have been vulnerable to prying eyes.
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