- Facebook must encrypt user passwords and regularly scan to detect whether any passwords are stored in
plaintext;
The attackers also inserted code that allowed them to capture
plaintext passwords as they were entered by users at the time.
The subsequent investigation by the local data protection agency determined the site had been storing user passwords in
plaintext without hashing.
It was recently revealed how personal and public data of millions of Instagram influencers was being hosted on an unsecured server with open access and Google has now disclosed information about a G Suite issue that affected business customers by saving their account credentials in
plaintext. The company says that passwords of a "subset of our enterprise G Suite customer" was stored in
plaintext in their internal encrypted systems.
For encryption we use C [left arrow] Enc (x, K), where
plaintext x [member of] [Z.sub.N] is encrypted into a cipher-text C [member of] M ([Z.sub.N]).
It contained
plaintext user passwords for 22,000 users.
The company acknowledged that a bug in its password management systems had caused hundreds of millions of user passwords for Facebook, Facebook Lite, and Instagram to be stored as
plaintext in an internal platform.
Gain access to information held in the cloud about all the connected accounts (including logins and passwords in
plaintext for all the prosthetic devices and their administrators)
Without HTTPS, anyone can easily eavesdrop and get your e-mail address and phone number in
plaintext, i.e., not encrypted.
The squashing technique is very essential as the purpose is to remove the growing noise in the ciphertext without revealing any information about the
plaintext or the secret key to the processor.