Keeping Passwords Secure

There is nothing more important to us than protecting people’s information, and we will continue making improvements as part of our ongoing security efforts at Facebook. In line with security best practices, Facebook masks people’s passwords when they create an account so that no one at the company can see them. Because we know that people may share, reuse or have their passwords stolen, we’ve built security measures to help protect people’s accounts:

While no passwords were exposed externally and we didn’t find any evidence of abuse to date, here are some steps you can take to keep your account secure:

For more information on how to keep your Facebook account secure, please visit facebook.com/about/security.

Source: newsroom.fb.com