Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords as plain text in a database that could be accessed by its staff
San Francisco On the Thursday before a major holiday weekend, and an hour before the much-anticipated Mueller report was released to the public, Facebook updated a month-old blog post titled"Keeping Passwords Secure" with a few lines of italicized text.
"Since this post was published, we discovered additional logs of Instagram passwords being stored in a readable format. We now estimate that this issue impacted millions of Instagram users," says the update.The original post revealed Facebook stored passwords for hundreds of millions of its Facebook users and"tens of thousands" of Instagram users as plain text in a database that could be accessed by its staff. Facebook collected 1.
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