Industry News: ESG5

The target: Social media giant Facebook.

The take: Passwords for between 200 and 600 million user accounts.

The attack vector: Passwords were stored in plaintext on internal systems dating back to 2012 and were accessible to more than 20,000 Facebook employees. Access logs show that at least 2,000 engineers or developers made approximately 9 million internal queries for datasets that contained plain text user passwords.

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