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by adavis321 2648 days ago
Just as alarming for me is that Facebook engineers don't seem to understand risk management:

"In this situation what we’ve found is these passwords were inadvertently logged but that there was no actual risk that’s come from this. We want to make sure we’re reserving those steps and only force a password change in cases where there’s definitely been signs of abuse."

Inadvertently logging passwords is a risk. If those logs were accessed then that's a bigger risk. Signs of abuse is an issue. There is no such thing as an "actual risk", there are just probabilities (and possible consequences). Once a consequence happens, it is no longer a risk -- then it's actual.