Facebook has a system in place to scan public ‘paste’ sites for email
address and password combinations to stay one step ahead of possible
leaks, according to The Register.
In a blog post entitled ‘Keeping Passwords Secure’,
Chris Long, a Security Engineer at the social network outlined how the
procedure works. “We built a system dedicated to further securing
people’s Facebook accounts by actively looking for these public
postings, analyzing them, and then notifying people when we discover
that their credentials have shown up elsewhere on the Internet,” writes
Long. “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.” read more>>
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