stupidrain71 1,477 Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/facebook-employees-had-access-to-millions-of-user-passwords.html Change your password fellow monsters. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scathach 6,674 Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 Who is surprised ? And it’s the same for every social media plateform. They all know our passwords, birthdate, location... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stupidrain71 1,477 Posted March 22, 2019 Author Share Posted March 22, 2019 6 minutes ago, Scathach said: Who is surprised ? And it’s the same for every social media plateform. They all know our passwords, birthdate, location... If you read the article, Facebook reportedly stored the passwords in plain text which must not be the case as it must be encrypted and not to be accessed by anyone. But oh well, Facebook has been always a nightmare in terms of user privacy so this shouldn’t come as a surprise. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlikegaga 9,117 Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 delete your FB account challenge Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mardy 260 Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 Like anyone would have searched your password from millions pages long text files? There’s no need to make everything so dramatic. The facebook employees doesn’t give a f*ck of yours or your neighbors passwords.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iAstroLeo 14,459 Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 18 minutes ago, Mardy said: Like anyone would have searched your password from millions pages long text files? There’s no need to make everything so dramatic. The facebook employees doesn’t give a f*ck of yours or your neighbors passwords.. There is a need to make this dramatic. Millions of passwords leaked yesterday in a ****ing text file Now, strangers have access to people's passwords, and most people use the same password. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mardy 260 Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 8 minutes ago, iAstroLeo said: There is a need to make this dramatic. Millions of passwords leaked yesterday in a ****ing text file Now, strangers have access to people's passwords, and most people use the same password. Nope, nothing got leaked. The employees only had access to them. They do not have access to the passwords anymore. Not like I could go and search for them. I don’t think many or any of employees even knew they could find those passwords. Did you even read the article? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Economy 53,076 Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 45 minutes ago, Mardy said: Like anyone would have searched your password from millions pages long text files? There’s no need to make everything so dramatic. The facebook employees doesn’t give a f*ck of yours or your neighbors passwords.. I think this is one of those situations where ppl blow the risk out of proportion... I mean the chances an employee found out they could access these passwords and then specifically go after your account out of millions just because he wants to be a creep... I mean the odds are quite low.... But still, it's still a vulnerability nevertheless especially if anyone has anything sensitive in private messages or something I personally don't use FB much except for the occasional chat and I have nothing special in conversations so I really don't get phased by this cuz there's nothing anyone could do with my account Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
uo111 5,283 Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 58 minutes ago, Mardy said: Like anyone would have searched your password from millions pages long text files? There’s no need to make everything so dramatic. The facebook employees doesn’t give a f*ck of yours or your neighbors passwords.. People who might use these passwords are not going through them individually. They use computers to go through them. Then, since people use the same password for everything, they will use this massive list of known passwords to break into a LOT of different things. And it’s all computerized (and very quick). It takes pretty savvy companies to fight something like this. Now who knows if any employee leaked any passwords, but they could have and honestly some people would be willing to pay for them. Also, it would be very easy for someone else to steal passwords that are being stored in plain text, so it doesn’t have to be an employee. The main message here is, facebook storing passwords in plain text IS dangerous, even if you don’t understand why. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iAstroLeo 14,459 Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 24 minutes ago, Mardy said: Nope, nothing got leaked. The employees only had access to them. They do not have access to the passwords anymore. Not like I could go and search for them. I don’t think many or any of employees even knew they could find those passwords. Did you even read the article? Who said I was talking about this artcle? I saw a news article this morning that millions of passwords leaked yesterday from Facebook and Instagram. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mardy 260 Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 6 hours ago, iAstroLeo said: Who said I was talking about this artcle? I saw a news article this morning that millions of passwords leaked yesterday from Facebook and Instagram. Well, I did look it up. No traces were found that anything got leaked. Maybe you should get your facts checked? Only news about this, where nothing got leaked. 7 hours ago, uo111 said: People who might use these passwords are not going through them individually. They use computers to go through them. Then, since people use the same password for everything, they will use this massive list of known passwords to break into a LOT of different things. And it’s all computerized (and very quick). It takes pretty savvy companies to fight something like this. Now who knows if any employee leaked any passwords, but they could have and honestly some people would be willing to pay for them. Also, it would be very easy for someone else to steal passwords that are being stored in plain text, so it doesn’t have to be an employee. The main message here is, facebook storing passwords in plain text IS dangerous, even if you don’t understand why. Facebook already fixed their problem, and there is no storing passwords in plain text anymore. Also, there shouldn’t have been in the first place. As I already noted, I dont think many or any employees knew they could find the passwords. This is just the news and media creating hysteria out of nothing. The main point is that absolutely none gives a single **** of our passwords. I would understand that people would be scared if nuclear launching codes were leaked, or military satellites were hacked. But in reality none of that is possible. Who cares if your facebook password was visible to some employees? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stupidrain71 1,477 Posted March 23, 2019 Author Share Posted March 23, 2019 5 hours ago, Mardy said: Who cares if your facebook password was visible to some employees? Wouldn’t you care if someone you don’t know have access to your door keys of your house? If privacy matters to you in your life, it should matter on your online accounts too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PunkTheFunk 125,733 Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 iamgay12345 has left the chat Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice bear 1 Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 i don't have a facebook, never regretted it ice heard one side from above Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mardy 260 Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 2 hours ago, hg1171 said: Wouldn’t you care if someone you don’t know have access to your door keys of your house? If privacy matters to you in your life, it should matter on your online accounts too. I wouldn’t care if the same person had 600 million other keys and they did not even know they had those keys. What are the chances they would ever use the key on my door? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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