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Re:Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in... by chatmasta on Thursday March 21, 2019 @08:50PM (#19458780)
For plenty of reasons, I'm sure. From the article:

> My Facebook insider said access logs showed some 2,000 engineers or developers made approximately nine million internal queries for data elements that contained plain text user passwords.

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Re:Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in... by YokoZar on Thursday March 21, 2019 @11:55PM (#19459496)
That doesn't sound like a human reading the log. It sounds like automation.

A script counting the number of successful logins, for instance, could read the same data element that unintentionally contained passwords.

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Re:Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in... by code_duck on Friday March 22, 2019 @05:03PM (#19466940)
We don’t have enough information to make that judgment.
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