Facebook has stored millions of Instagram passwords in plain text

Facebook shared the news as an update of a month old blog post, which could be perceived as a suspicious move to attract less attention. But a spokesman for the company said that Facebook had simply learned that more Instagram passwords had been unveiled. Facebook had estimated that it should warn tens of thousands of Instagram users, but it has since learned that millions of people had been impacted.

This update comes less than 24 hours after we discovered that Facebook had also unintentionally registered contact lists containing up to 1.5 million new users. The company had previously announced that it would touch the millions of Facebook users whose passwords were stored in plain text. Now he will need to contact users whose mailing lists have been blocked and millions of Instagram users.

You can read the Facebook statement below:

"This is a problem that has already been widely reported, but we want to point out that we simply learned that there were more passwords stored in this way.There is no evidence of abuse or misuse. of these passwords. "