Worried that Facebook Employees Know Your Password? Here are Some Pro Security Tips
Facebook allowed hundreds of millions of user passwords to be accessible to by its employees for years and Facebook violated fundamental computer-security practices. Now, cybersecurity company Sophos is offering advice on what people can do. News18.com Facebook has said it has fixed a security issue wherein millions of its users' passwords were stored in plain text and "readable" format for years and according to reports, were searchable by thousands of its employees. The report by KrebsOnSecurity claimed on Thursday that around 200-600 million Facebook users may have had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by over 20,000 Facebook employees. Federal prosecutors in the US are now also probing whether top executives of Facebook, already mired in data breaches, were aware of data harvesting by the British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. According to a report in The Guardian on Sunday, federal prosecutors' investigation claims t