Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Thursday, March 21st, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today reset the X number of days without a Facebook scandal calendar.

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Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Another day, another, whatever this is.

This morning, Krebs on security reported that a tipster had alerted them to the fact that

Facebook had been storing some users passwords in

plain text form in systems searchable by employees. The source said that

between 200 and 600 million user passwords were kept in these systems in this way.

My Facebook insider said access logs showed some 2,000 engineers or developers made approximately 9 million internal

queries for data elements that contained plain text user passwords."

End quote.

Now note that at least at this point there appears to be no malicious intent here, we think.

This was just sloppiness again, we think.

Facebook immediately posted a statement saying it will soon notify hundreds of millions of

Facebook users and thousands of Instagram users about this issue if their accounts were

affected.

Quoting Facebook's Pedro Kanahati, the VP of Engineering for Security and Privacy,

quote, to be clear, these passwords were never visible to anyone outside of Facebook

and we have found no evidence to date that

anyone internally abused or improperly accessed them."

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