Facebook says it stored millions of passwords in plain text | CBC News

"There is no valid reason why anyone in an organization, especially the size of Facebook, needs to have access to users' passwords in plain text."

But the incident reveals a huge oversight for the company amid a slew of bruises and stumbles in the last couple of years.

Facebook Lite is designed for users with older phones or low-speed internet connections and is used primarily in developing countries.

He said he's seen a number of instances where much smaller organizations made such information readily available not just to programmers but also to customer support teams.

Speaking to CBC News' MeeganRead, security researcher Chester Wisniewskiat Sophos in Vancouver, said he was "a little bit astounded" at this news.

If indeed thousands of employees accessed the data set, said Wisniewski, it seems unlikely that none of them would have alerted the company's leaders.

"You can't trust what companies are doing with your password, and when news like this comes out no matter what you're hearing change your password now."

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