Facebook Passwords Are Readable On Their Internal Servers

On Thursday, a Facebook blog post has revealed that millions of user passwords were archived as plaintext on its internal data storage systems. This means several social networking giant's employees are able to read those personal passwords.

An internal investigation at Facebook early this year has found that all those passwords were stored in plain text. A company spokesperson has claimed that they had not found "no evidence to date" that any employee improperly accessed or abused them.

Those visible passwords belonging to tens of millions of other Facebook users. The basic security blunder was centered on a series of controversies about Facebook users privacy and data safety. This is the latest in a string of serious security scandals of the social network giant. A hacker recently was able to access personal information from 29 million Facebook accounts after stealing login tokens last October. Before that, private messages from users were hacked and put up for sale.

Canahuati says that they have been corrected the password logging bug, and does not plan to reset those users’ passwords. Canahuati affirmed that Facebook was notifying to those whose password exposed as a precaution and fixing the serious privacy issue.

The internal investigation was first reported by Krebs on Security. Archiving without encrypted password has dated back to 2012, according to Krebs. Last year, other popular platforms such as Twitter and GitHub had also faced up to password exposures.