Facebook reportedly stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext - for years
(Android Police)

Today, Krebs on Security has revealed that Facebook was storing between 200 and 600 million Facebook users passwords in plain text, going back to as early as 2012. While Facebook claims to have found no indication that the passwords were abused, an insider speaking to Krebs on Security claims around 2,000 developers made around 9 million queries against the logs, returning data which contained these plain text passwords. An anonymous source reportedly spoke to Krebs on Security about the subject, explaining that the passwords were stored unencrypted — pretty much the single biggest `no-no` in password-based security — as part of recorded logs for some applications. Read MoreFacebook reportedly stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext - for years was written by the awesome team at Android Police.