Over 20,000 employees had access to the passwords, said an anonymous source.
Highlights:
Facebook has had a copy of hundreds of millions of user passwords for as long as up to seven years, goes a recent report by KrebsOnSecurity. They were reportedly stored in plain text format and were made searchable by thousands of Facebook employees. The report also says that an ongoing investigation at Facebook shows no signs of a breach in the records. The company is currently looking into past security failures where applications developed by employees logged unencrypted password data of Facebook users in internal servers.
According to KrebsOnSecurity’s source, who works inside Facebook and remains anonymous, the current investigation so far identifies between 200 and 600 million Facebook accounts, whose credentials are stored in plain text and are searchable by over 20,000 employees within the company.
