Latest security flaw at Facebook believed to impact between 200m and 600m users

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English - March 21, 2019 19:33 - 8 minutes - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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Anywhere from 200 million to 600 million users of Facebook are believed to have been impacted by a security flaw at the social network.

For years, users' passwords were stored in a text document, which could have been opened by anyone who had internal access to files - that's as many as 20,000 staff.

Guest: Alex Hamerstone

Cybersecurity expert and head of risk management at TrustedSec

Anywhere from 200 million to 600 million users of Facebook are believed to have been impacted by a security flaw at the social network.

For years, users' passwords were stored in a text document, which could have been opened by anyone who had internal access to files - that's as many as 20,000 staff.

Guest: Alex Hamerstone

Cybersecurity expert and head of risk management at TrustedSec