Facebook said Thursday that it stored millions of its users' passwords in plain text for years. "There is no valid reason why anyone in an organization, especially the size of Facebook, needs to have access to users' passwords in plain text." Facebook will notifiy millions of usersThe security blog KrebsOnSecurity said some 600 million Facebook users may have had their passwords stored in plain text. Facebook said in a blog post Thursday it will likely notify "hundreds of millions" of Facebook Lite users, millions of Facebook users and tens of thousands of Instagram users that their passwords were stored in plain text. But, according to Brian Krebs, the security researcher, in some cases the passwords had been stored in plain text since 2012.

Source: CBC News March 21, 2019 17:57 UTC