In a blog post today, Google disclosed that it recently discovered a bug that caused some portion of G Suite users to have their passwords stored in plain text. The bug has been around since 2005, ...

Hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their passwords stored in plain text, accessible by company employees, according to an internal security review. Credit: Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty ...

In September of 2018, an anonymous independent security researcher (who we’ll call X) noticed that their power company’s website was offering to email—not reset!—lost account passwords to forgetful ...

A series of technical mishaps led Facebook Inc. to store the passwords to hundreds of millions of user accounts in unencrypted plain text, it was revealed today. The social networking giant ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (CBSNewYork/AP) — Facebook left hundreds of millions of user passwords readable by its employees for years, the company acknowledged Thursday after a security researcher exposed ...

MacOS High Sierra, the latest version of Apple’s desktop OS, is finally here. One of the biggest changes is under the hood, switching the OS over to a new, more efficient file system called Apple File ...

Google has revealed it had left some business users' passwords exposed in plain text. In a blog post on Tuesday, the tech giant said it had discovered the issue in Google's popular enterprise product, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook left hundreds of millions of user passwords readable by its employees for years, the company acknowledged Thursday after a security researcher exposed the lapse . By ...

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 ...

Facebook isn't the only big tech company found to be storing passwords in plain text. Google has warned G Suite users that an "error" in a password recovery implementation left some of their passwords ...

Facebook on Thursday revealed that it accidentally stored "millions" of Instagram user passwords in plain text. The disclosure comes a month after it admitted to accidentally storing "hundreds of ...