Facebook stored 'hundreds of millions' of passwords in plain text for years

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Facebook stored 'hundreds of millions' of passwords in plain text for years
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Between 200 and 600 million of Facebook's 2.7 billion users may have had their passwords exposed

Security researcher Brian Krebs, who first reported the news, said between 200 and 600 million of Facebook's 2.7 billion users may have had their passwords exposed.

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