The social media giant said that it is notifying users whose passwords it stored in plain text, which made them accessible for Facebook employees to view. Hundreds of millions of Facebook user ...

That ensures that the password is never seen in plain text, at all. Of course, for the hashing to happen client-side, the client must own the instructions to do so, which means that an attacker will ...

Across Facebook and Instagram, Meta has been storing more than half a billion users' passwords in plain text, with some easily readable for more than a decade. The issue was first uncovered in 2019 ...

Google has revealed it had left some business users' passwords exposed in plain text. In a blog post on Tuesday, the tech giant said it had discovered the issue in Google's popular enterprise product, ...

Facebook just can’t seem to keep its nose clean with respect to security and user privacy. The latest blunder was first reported on by KrebsonSecurity, which discovered that the social networking ...