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April 18, 2019 06:13 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Qvcby2JMeo8/facebook-quietly-updates-last-months-security-disclosure-to-add-that-millions-of-instagram
Facebook Quietly Updates Last Month's Security Disclosure To Add That 'Millions' of Instagram Users Are Also Impacted
Last month, Facebook disclosed that hundreds of millions of users on its platform had their account passwords stored in plain text -- in some cases going back to 2012 -- and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees. Today, the company quietly updated that blog post to reveal that Instagram users are also impacted. It said, in the update: 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.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Qvcby2JMeo8/facebook-quietly-updates-last-months-security-disclosure-to-add-that-millions-of-instagram
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