The phone hacking scandal has made us touchy about security loopholes. Today we learn that Android stores passwords as plain text -- but should we be worried? Richard Trenholm Former Movie and TV ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook had stored millions of user passwords in plain text for years, the social media company confirmed on Thursday after a security researcher posted about the issue online.

Unknown to hundreds of millions of Facebook users, their passwords were sitting in plain text inside the company's data storage, leaving them vulnerable to potential employee misuse and ...

Plain-text passwords X did not attempt to discover any direct exploits into any of the utility firms or into SEDC's own payment site. There's no smoking gun here that says "somebody can just grab ...

The maker of a phone app that is advertised as providing a stealthy means for monitoring all activities on an Android device ...

These messages are in plain text form—they’re not encrypted between sender and receiver, ... Security researcher Sean Wright describes SMS 2FA as “better than nothing”.

My Facebook insider said access logs showed some 2,000 engineers or developers made approximately nine million internal queries for data elements that contained plain text user passwords.

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Facebook officials admitted on Thursday that the tech giant stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in plain text -- able to be read by employees. "As part of a routine security review in ...

But security researcher Brian Krebs wrote that in some cases the passwords had been stored in plain text since 2012. Facebook Lite launched in 2015 and Facebook bought Instagram in 2012.

Google disclosed that it recently discovered a bug that caused some portion of G Suite users to have their passwords stored in plain text. The bug has been around since 2005, though Google says ...

Hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their passwords stored in plain text, accessible by company employees, according to an internal security review. Credit: Florian Gaertner/Photothek via ...