{"id":14844,"date":"2019-04-18T22:16:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T22:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/facebook-now-says-its-password-leak-affected-millions-of-instagram-users.html"},"modified":"2019-04-18T22:16:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T22:16:28","slug":"facebook-now-says-its-password-leak-affected-millions-of-instagram-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/facebook-now-says-its-password-leak-affected-millions-of-instagram-users.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook now says its password leak affected \u2018millions\u2019 of Instagram users"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facebook <\/a> has confirmed its password-related security incident last month<\/a> now affects \u201cmillions\u201d of Instagram users, not \u201ctens of thousands\u201d as first thought.<\/p>\n

The social media giant confirmed the new information in its updated blog post<\/a>, first published on March 21.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe discovered additional logs of Instagram <\/a> passwords being stored in a readable format,\u201d the company said. \u201cWe now estimate that this issue impacted millions of Instagram users. We will be notifying these users as we did the others.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur investigation has determined that these stored passwords were not internally abused or improperly accessed,\u201d the updated post said, but the company still has not said how it made that determination.<\/p>\n

The social media giant did not say how many millions were affected, however.<\/p>\n

Last month, Facebook admitted it had inadvertently stored \u201chundreds of millions\u201d of user account passwords in plaintext for years, said to have dated as far back as 2012. The company said the unencrypted passwords were stored in logs accessible to some 2,000 engineers and developers. The data was not leaked outside of the company, however. Facebook still hasn\u2019t explained how the bug occurred.<\/p>\n

Facebook posted the update at 10am ET \u2014 an hour before the Special Counsel\u2019s report into Russian election interference<\/a> was set to be published.<\/p>\n

When reached, spokesperson Liz Bourgeois said Facebook does not have \u201ca precise number\u201d yet to share, and declined to say exactly when the additional discovery was made.<\/p>\n

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Facebook admits it stored \u2018hundreds of millions\u2019 of account passwords in plaintext<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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