PrivacyDigest<p>Over 600 million <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/passwords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>passwords</span></a> stored in plain text </p><p>The issue was first uncovered in 2019 when <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> admitted to "hundreds of millions" of passwords being stored <a href="https://mas.to/tags/unencrypted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unencrypted</span></a>. Facebook said that the passwords were not available outside of the company — but also admitted that around 2,000 engineers had made about 9 million queries on that user database<br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a></p><p><a href="https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/09/27/meta-stored-600-million-facebook-and-instagram-passwords-in-plain-text" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">appleinsider.com/articles/24/0</span><span class="invisible">9/27/meta-stored-600-million-facebook-and-instagram-passwords-in-plain-text</span></a></p>