Facebook says it exposed millions of Instagram user passwordsAffected users are being contacted now.
Back in late March, Facebook came under fire for storing its users' passwords in a readable format — exposing around 600 million passwords to its employees. As if that wasn't bad enough, Facebook's now quietly announced that something similar also happened to Instagram accounts.
Added as a text update to an article on the Facebook Newsroom published four weeks ago, Facebook says the following:
Update on April 18, 2019 at 7AM PT: 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. We will be notifying these users as we did the others. Our investigation has determined that these stored passwords were not internally abused or improperly accessed
Yep. It happened again.
While Facebook reassures that the passwords weren't compromised or abused, it's remarkable the company didn't catch this sooner fol...
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Facebook says it exposed millions of Instagram user passwords
