passwords

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook had stored millions of user passwords in plain text for years, the social media company confirmed on Thursday after a security researcher posted about the issue online. Facebook says there is no evidence that employees had abused access to this data. The company says the passwords were stored on internal […]

Today Mellody is talking about financial information, and how to protect it. Mellody: With numerous headlines over the past few years about data breaches at major companies such as Target, or even at the U.S. government, it is understandable that most Americans are concerned their financial information being compromised or exposed. And it is great that […]

Employers in California and Illinois will no longer be able to force their workers to provide their Facebook passwords. The new law is one of 400 state measures created in 2012 that are expected to take effect in 2013. The social media policy will prohibit bosses from asking for password to personal employee accounts as […]