Security researcher Brian Krebs broke the news about data protection failures, which saw up to 600 million passwords stored in plain text.
And its investigation showed that most of the people affected were users of Facebook Lite, which tends to be used in nations where net connections are sparse and slow.
But it added it would enforce a password re-set only if its taskforce looking into the issue uncovered abuse of the login credentials.
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