Facebook has stored "millions" of unencrypted Instagram passwords

"We found new Instagram pbadwords stored in a readable format, and we estimate today that the problem has affected millions of Instagram users," said Facebook in an update of its initial blog published on 21 March.

Instagram's parent company then revealed that the pbadwords of hundreds of millions of users had been stored on internal servers in an unencrypted manner, while claiming that there had been no security breaches. .

He also noted that the problem was solved and that it was referring to "hundreds of millions of Facebook Lite users," a lite version of the site for poor Internet connections, "dozens of millions of other Facebook users and tens of thousands of Instagram users. "

The group, which has 2.3 billion active users worldwide, also confirmed Thursday that no malicious use of these pbadwords had been identified.

For more than two years, the group has struggled with controversy, ranging from network manipulation for political purposes by countries outside of user data management, which form the basis of its business model.

AFP