Facebook has revealed that it stores hundreds millions user passwords in plain text. According to the company, the codes were only accessible to 20.000 of its employees, and it is confident that none of them used them maliciously….
In a publication on his blog today, Facebook announced that on duration one control carried out in January 2019, discovered hundreds of millions of passwords of the social network's users stored in plain text in one of its internal data storage systems. 
The passwords were accessible to about 20.000 Facebook employees, but the publication says they were not accessible to others outside of the company.
"To be clear, these passwords were never visible to anyone outside of Facebook and so far we have not found any evidence that someone inside them used them maliciously. "We estimate we need to notify hundreds of millions of Facebook Lite users, tens of millions of other Facebook users and tens of thousands of Instagram users," said Pedro Canahuati, VP Engineering in the company's security department.
Facebook has fixed the problem and said it will begin notifying the roughly 600 million users of Facebook Lite, Facebook and Instagram whose passwords were exposed to company employees, although the biggest social network still claims no one codeof access was not leaked to anyone other than Facebook.
If you are worried about your safety, do not expect to receive email from the company. Change your password directly to Facebook services.
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