ASSOCIATED PRESSFacebook is once again under the spotlight after admitting to exposing passwords belonging to hundreds of millions of users. According to cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs, the plaintext passwords had been searchable by Facebook employees in some cases since 2012. The source told Krebs it could have impacted between 200 million and 600 million users, with this information potentially available to 20,000 Facebook employees. “We estimate that we will notify hundreds of millions of Facebook Lite users, tens of millions of other Facebook users, and tens of thousands of Instagram users.”Facebook Lite is a version of Facebook predominantly used by people in regions with lower connectivity. If you are impacted, change your Facebook password straight away – and make sure you have enabled two-factor authentication as well.

Source: Forbes March 21, 2019 17:26 UTC