The amount of hacking and leaking of user information these days is starting to become a little disturbing. It wasn’t too long ago that photos saved by a third-party Snapchat service were hacked, and a few days ago it was reported that over 7 million Dropbox usernames and passwords were leaked.
That being said, who could be next? Well not Facebook apparently. The social networking giant is learning from the mistakes of others and has recently announced how they plan on keeping your passwords secure. This will be done with Facebook trawling the internet and actively looking for password leaks, such as public “paste” websites.
According to Facebook, “To do this, we monitor a selection of different ‘paste’ sites for stolen credentials and watch for reports of large scale data breaches. We collect the stolen credentials that have been publicly posted and check them to see if the stolen email and password combination matches the same email and password being used on Facebook.”
If Facebook were to find a match, they will notify the user the next time they log in and then guides them through a process of changing their password in order to keep their account secure. Sounds like a good idea, but what do you guys think of Facebook’s efforts?
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