Facebook stumbles in a new scandal, as its employees seen millions of accounts' data

Facebook was exposed to a new scandal today after hundreds of millions of accounts on the social networking site were found to be unencrypted and easily visible to employees inside the company.

Facebook confirmed the news today saying it was working to fix the bugs and stressed that user data was not accessible to anyone outside the company and found no evidence of abuse by employees.

Facebook explained, that it would send notifications to users whose personal data and passwords had been stored, but would not ask them to change their account information or passwords.

Facebook's admission of this new scandal came after a report by an online security official in the United States said that between 200 million and 600 million users may have stored passwords for their accounts inside the company so that thousands of Facebook employees can access them.

This is not the first Facebook scandal, it also admitted last year that "Cambridge Analytica" had breached millions of accounts and exploited user data for political and advertising purposes.

Facebook has also been involved in the spread of false and misleading news on its network, which has had a negative impact on the 2016 US presidential election, while accusing Russia of being behind this scandal.