Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years

Re:Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in... by kitsune_ on Thursday March 21, 2019 @12:08PM (#19453958)

The fact that sensitive data like this is just one config push away from being exposed means it's a brittle design (not just the code, but the entire design /review / deployment process - this is a platform with 1 billion users, not your 1-dev WordPress webpage). That said, this is further aggravated by the simple fact that for whatever reason, 20k of their employees had access to these logs.

All in all it just paints a picture of an irresponsible company where their house is not in order.

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Re:Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in... by lostapathy on Thursday March 21, 2019 @01:00PM (#19454595)

Exactly. It's one thing not to have enough controls in place to catch something like this on the forum for your warcraft guild. It's another thing entirely when you operate at the scale of Facebook.

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