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| Mar. 21, 2019 | Barbara Ortutay Facebook said Thursday that it stored millions of its users' passwords in plain text for years. The
acknowledgement from the social media giant came after a security researcher posted about the issue online. "Security rule 101 dictates that under no circumstances passwords should be stored in plain text, and at all times must be encrypted," said cybersecurity expert Andrei Barysevich of Recorded Future. "There is no valid reason why anyone in an organization, especially the size of Facebook, needs to have access to users' passwords in plain text." Facebook said there is no evidence its employees abused access to this...