SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook left hundreds of millions of user passwords readable by its employees for years, the company acknowledged Thursday after a security researcher exposed the lapse . By ...

Jim, I object to your warnings about using a password manager. There is absolutely no better way for anyone to have proper password hygiene than using a password manager. I say that as a computer ...

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta €91 million (about $137 million CAD) for a 2019 security breach in which the company mistakenly stored user passwords in plain text. Moreover, the ...

Microblogging service Twitter has warned its users to reset their passwords as soon as possible, following the discovery that it had been unwittingly logging them in plain text internally. Storing ...

Facebook is alerting hundreds of millions of users that it stored their passwords in a plain text, putting the security of many accounts at risk. Passwords are usually masked in an unreadable format ...

Facebook left millions of user passwords readable by its employees for years, the company acknowledged Thursday after a security researcher exposed the lapse. By storing passwords in readable plain ...

This won't affect many people, but it still proves that Apple has to wake up. Soon. Someone (or more than one) is sleeping at the wheel here, no doubt. This is just shameful for *any* company. For a ...

The Irish regulator has now fined Meta over €2.6bn in recent years, but less than 1pc has been paid yet due to appeals Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Ireland’s data protection commissioner (DPC) has fined ...

Another horrible picture of a Facebook security blunder develops, and no hip filter can make this one look pretty. Either by accident or design, Facebook chose one of the busiest days in American ...

Facebook on Thursday admitted that millions of passwords were stored in plain text on its internal servers, a security slip that left them readable by the social networking platform's employees. "To ...

Activision has denied storing Call of Duty Elite passwords in plain text - but has admitted emailing them to customers in plain text form when they ask to recover them. We were sent our Call of Duty ...