Toronto, March 22: In another story of Facebook슬롯사이트™s lax attitude towards protecting the data of its users, millions of passwords were reportedly stored in plain text format on internal servers and which were accessible by up to 2000 employees of the social network platform.

These passwords date back to 2012 and the 슬롯사이트˜glitch슬롯사이트� which stored the passwords in plain text format was discovered only this January. Up to 600 million users of Facebook could have had their passwords compromised. Facebook슬롯사이트™s review showed that most of the people affected were users of Facebook Lite, which tend to hail from nations where net connections are sparse and slow. 슬롯사이트œWe estimate that we will notify hundreds of millions of Facebook Lite users, tens of millions of other Facebook users, and tens of thousands of Instagram users," the company told Reuters. Affected users will be directly notified. Read:슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Mark Zuckerberg's Emails From Leaked Documents Reveal How Facebook Cut Off Its Rival Vine

This security flaw story was broken by security reporter Brian Krebs, who cited a 슬롯사이트œsenior Facebook inside source슬롯사이트�, to say that 슬롯사이트œaccess logs showed some 2,000 engineers or developers made approximately nine million internal queries for data elements that contained plain-text user passwords슬롯사이트�.

But the company refuted reports that user security was compromised. In a statement, Facebook슬롯사이트™s vice-president for engineering, security and privacy, Pedro Canahuati, said, 슬롯사이트œWe have found no evidence to date that anyone internally abused or improperly accessed슬롯사이트� the passwords, which 슬롯사이트œwere never visible to anyone outside of Facebook슬롯사이트�.

He also said that Facebook has now fixed this particular issue, as well as some problems the company discovered in other security features, such as the code by which users log in through other apps.

This story now becomes just one in a long line of developments that have shown up Facebook슬롯사이트™s almost callous attitude towards . The Mark Zuckerberg-led platform has been embroiled in the , emails which showed Zuckerberg and team auctioning access to its users to the highest bidder and this is the latest one.

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