This caught our attention because our login systems are designed to mask passwords using techniques that make them unreadable.

We discovered additional logs of Instagram passwords being stored in a readable format.

We now estimate that this issue impacted millions of Instagram users.

Facebook admits storing “millions” and not “ten of thousands” of Instagram passwords in plain text

However, the company did not mention how many millions of accounts were impacted by the breach.

The company also says that the stored passwords were not internally abused or improperly accessed by their employees.

Source:Facebook

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source: www.techworm.net