Thursday, March 21, 2019

Facebook On Keeping Passwords Secure

It looks like Facebook has screwed the pooch...again. Here's what happened and here is the company's statement:

As part of a routine security review in January, we found that some user passwords were being stored in a readable format within our internal data storage systems. This caught our attention because our login systems are designed to mask passwords using techniques that make them unreadable. We have fixed these issues and as a precaution we will be notifying everyone whose passwords we have found were stored in this way.