PCWorld:
Facebook confirmed Thursday that hundreds of millions of user passwords were being stored in a “readable format” within its servers, accessible to internal Facebook employees — including millions more Instagram users than previously thought. Affected users will be notified, Facebook said, so they can change those passwords.
“We now estimate that this issue impacted millions of Instagram users,” Facebook wrote. “We will be notifying these users as we did the others. Our investigation has determined that these stored passwords were not internally abused or improperly accessed.”
Facebook is the Samsung of social media. They just can’t stop shooting themselves in the feet. Unlike Samsung, their screw ups can create a lot more damage.
Zuck and Sand should be in jail…. and FB should be shut down, not in that order.
Their favorite phrase: “is larger than we expected” and the other.. we can do better.
“Unlike Samsung, their screw ups can create a lot more damage.” I’m fairly certain that the FAA has not banned the traveling public from bringing a device with Facebook access onto aircraft due to the danger of it spontaneously combusting. I know Facebook is a flaming POS, but really, an exploding phone presents a much more dangerous situation.
Party on Faceebiook, you sweltering pile of dung.
maybe.
Samsung does harm itself, not others, and it does it not deliberately.
FBook does it deliberately, it is FBook Bizz.
I can’t say I am surprised. Just pay attention to FBs corp. culture and that provides everything need to know. From top-down it is diseased. Only a matter of time before it fatally wounds itself.
Would it kill them to setup a proper identify provider? Or just frickin’ pay OAuth to do it for them? I think we’ve cracked the tech on this particular little problem.