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Just a month ago, Facebook admitted it had mistakenly exposed hundreds of millions of passwords by storing them in plaintext where employees could access them. Facebook had announced back then that thousands of Instagram passwords were also leaked in the unencrypted storage blunder. Now, the company has quietly added a major update to that news: not […]
Short Bytes: Facebook’s Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos has revealed that Facebook buys leaked passwords from black markets. The company does this exercise and matches the leaked passwords with the encrypted passwords of the users. This way, Facebook alerts the users who use weak passwords. Facebook is a technology giant that has to manage tons of […]
A hacker going with the handle of @Fr0styFr0ze on Twitter has breached into the official website of American Choral Directors Association (http://acda.org), as a result, login details of 600+ site’s users have been leaked online. @Fr0styFr0ze who claims to be a 15 years old kid from France contacted me on Twitter and explained that the hack was actually […]