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    Over 20,000 Facebook employees had access to 600 million user passwords

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    Kris Holt
    Kris Holt
    03.21.2019

    It's a day of the week ending in the letter "y," so it should come as little surprise there's news of another Facebook privacy transgression. The company says it found in January that some user passwords were stored in plain text on its servers. Facebook's systems are supposed to mask passwords, and it has since fixed the issue.