{"id":6035,"date":"2019-03-22T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/howk.de\/w1\/facebook-facepalm-up-to-600-million-user-passwords-were-stored-in-plain-text\/"},"modified":"2019-03-22T09:00:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T09:00:12","slug":"facebook-facepalm-up-to-600-million-user-passwords-were-stored-in-plain-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howk.de\/?p=6035","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Facepalm: Up To 600 Million User Passwords Were Stored In Plain Text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hothardware.com\/news\/facebook-hundreds-millions-user-passwords-plain-text\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hothardware.com\/ContentImages\/NewsItem\/47568\/thumbnail\/default\/facebookthumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook Facepalm: Up To 600 Million User Passwords Were Stored In Plain Text\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\"><\/a><br \/>\nFacebook\u00a0just can\u2019t seem to keep its nose clean with respect to security and\u00a0user privacy. The latest blunder was first reported on by\u00a0KrebsonSecurity, which discovered that the social networking giant was storing user account passwords in plain text instead of hashing them.<br \/>\nWhat\u2019s more troubling about this discovery is that the passwords <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook\u00a0just can\u2019t seem to keep its nose clean with respect to security and\u00a0user privacy. The latest blunder was first reported on by\u00a0KrebsonSecurity, which discovered that the social networking giant was storing user account passwords in plain text instead of hashing them. What\u2019s more troubling about this discovery is that the passwords<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.9.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Facebook Facepalm: Up To 600 Million User Passwords Were Stored In Plain Text - Howk IT-Dienstleistungen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/howk.de\/?p=6035\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Facebook Facepalm: Up To 600 Million User Passwords Were Stored In Plain Text - Howk IT-Dienstleistungen\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Facebook\u00a0just can\u2019t seem to keep its nose clean with respect to security and\u00a0user privacy. 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