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Meta pays the price for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext
Company failed to follow one of the most sacrosanct rules for password storage.
Meta officials said at the time that the error was found during a routine security review of the company’s internal network data storage practices. Because hashing algorithms works in one direction, the only way to obtain the corresponding plaintext is to guess, a process that can require large amounts of time and computational resources. “It must be borne in mind, that the passwords, the subject of consideration in this case, are particularly sensitive, as they would enable access to users’ social media accounts.”
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