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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook left hundreds of millions of user passwords readable by its employees for years, the company acknowledged Thursday after a security researcher exposed the lapse . By ...
In a blog post today, Google disclosed that it recently discovered a bug that caused some portion of G Suite users to have their passwords stored in plain text. The bug has been around since 2005, ...
A series of technical mishaps led Facebook Inc. to store the passwords to hundreds of millions of user accounts in unencrypted plain text, it was revealed today. The social networking giant ...
Facebook storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plain text demonstrates the urgent need for more effective governance, risk management and compliance at public companies. As details emerged ...
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (CBSNewYork/AP) — Facebook left hundreds of millions of user passwords readable by its employees for years, the company acknowledged Thursday after a security researcher exposed ...
In September of 2018, an anonymous independent security researcher (who we'll call X) noticed that their power company's website was offering to email—not reset!—lost account passwords to forgetful ...
Hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their passwords stored in plain text, accessible by company employees, according to an internal security review. Credit: Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty ...
Google has revealed it had left some business users' passwords exposed in plain text. In a blog post on Tuesday, the tech giant said it had discovered the issue in Google's popular enterprise product, ...
Hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees — in some cases going back to 2012, KrebsOnSecurity has ...