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Facebook exposed millions of Instagram passwords

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The company on Thursday revealed that millions of passwords belonging to the users of its photo-sharing service Instagram were also exposed.
A day after admitting it « unintentionally » uploaded emails of nearly 1.5 million of new users, Facebook has now revealed that millions of Instagram passwords were stored on its servers in a readable format.
Last month, Facebook said that it fixed a security issue wherein millions of its users’ passwords were stored in plain text and « readable » format for years and were searchable by thousands of its employees.
The company on Thursday revealed that millions of passwords belonging to the users of its photo-sharing service Instagram were also exposed.
« We discovered additional logs of Instagram passwords being stored in a readable format.

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