So things are getting from bad to worse for the Zuckerberg’s company as Facebook have admitted in a blog post, that the company stored millions of users’ passwords on their internal servers and because of a security slip-up these passwords were visible to the company’s staff.
Furthermore this problem in the company’s servers was uncovered during a routine security review which takes place every January of the new year,. The vice president of engineering, security, and privacy Pedro Canahuatistated in this regard that“To be clear, these passwords were never visible to anyone outside of Facebook and we have found no evidence to date that anyone internally abused or improperly accessed them”.Here is where thingsget interesting, according to the Krebs report, the passwords of these 600 million+ users were actually accessiblefor almost 20,000 engineers, developers and other staff members which is completely against any cyber laws.
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Moreover, the majorcompany is now expected to inform the thousands of Facebook users, Facebook Lite users and Instagram users whose passwords may have also been made vulnerable to the prying eyes, as said in the Facebook’s blog post. The Krebs report also uncovered the fact that in some cases, the archives containing user passwords were found dating back to the year 2012.It should also be noted that this is not the first time that Facebook have faced such a security issue, if youremember, last year in the month of September, because of a breach in the website’s security, private photos of up to 6.8 million users were exposed to the mant developers all over the world. Moving on in October 2018, due to a hack in Facebook’s system, the data of about 50 million social media account were affected. And this is not even the end of it, according to a report Facebook gave access of about 50 million accounts to a voter profiling company, Cambridge Analytica, which worked for Trump’s 2016 presidential election campaign.
