Conspiracy theories have been flying left right center on what the cause was. The Presidents Facebook was also suspended but many wondered why since there was nothing there, but it seems the president’s Facebook account may have been among the Millions which may have had their passwords leaked and those in charge had to take an extra step in ensuring safety.
Nzioka Waita, The Chief of Staff said the accounts have been “temporarily suspended.” “On account of unauthorized access to the official social media handles of H.E the President of the Republic of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta. All official social media handles for the President have been temporarily suspended to allow for the necessary remedial measures to be undertaken,” he said. President Kenyatta’s Twitter and Facebook accounts had a combined following of close to 7 million users. This is what has been hot since morning with many wondering what was really cooking in the State House.
All Facebook users are being urged to change their passwords after a massive security error on the world’s biggest social media site. IT business insiders reports that “hundreds of millions” of Facebook users’ passwords were stored insecurely and that any Facebook employee could easily have obtained the login details for these accounts. The failures go back to 2012. Influential technicians all Facebook users to change their passwords today.
Krebs reports that Facebook has acknowledged the error, but the social media giant insists there is no evidence user details have been accessed just that they could be. The Facebook source said an internal investigation so far reveals up to 600 million Facebook users may have had their account passwords stored in potentially insecure plain text, and more than 20,000 Facebook employees could have had access to the data.
Facebook software engineer Scott Renfro told Krebs: “We’ve not found any cases so far in our investigations where someone was looking intentionally for passwords, nor have we found signs of misuse of this data.” Facebook themselves intend to notify the 200 million to 600 million affected users in the near future.