Facebook has revealed that it stores hundreds of millions of user passwords in plain text. According to the company, the codes were only accessible to 20.000 of its employees, and it is certain that none of them used them maliciously….
In a publication on his blog today, Facebook announced that during a routine audit conducted in January of 2019, they discovered hundreds of millions of social network user passwords stored in plain text on one of their internal data storage systems. 
The passwords were accessible to about 20.000 Facebook employees, but the post says they were not accessible to others except the company's.
“To be clear, these passwords were never visible to anyone outside of Facebook, and we have so far found no evidence that anyone internally misused them. We estimate that we will have to notify hundreds of millions users του Facebook Lite, δεκάδες εκατομμύρια άλλους χρήστες του Facebook και δεκάδες χιλιάδες χρήστες στο Instagram”, δήλωσε ο Pedro Canahuati, VP Engineering στο τμήμα security the company's.
Facebook has corrected the problem and said he will start to inform millions of Facebok Lite, Facebook and Instagram users whose passwords have been exposed to company employees, even though the largest social network is still claiming that no code access was leaked to anyone other than Facebok.
If you're concerned about your security, don't wait for an email from the company. Change your password immediately useson Facebook services.
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