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posted by chromas on Friday April 19 2019, @12:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the text/plain;charset=oooops? dept.

Facebook Stored Millions of Instagram Passwords in Plain Text:

Facebook says it stored millions of Instagram users’ passwords in plain text, leaving them exposed to people with access to certain internal systems. The security lapse was first reported last month, but at the time, Facebook said it only happened to “tens of thousands of Instagram users,” whereas the number is now being revised up to “millions.” The issue also affected “hundreds of millions of Facebook Lite users” and “tens of millions of other Facebook users.”

Passwords are supposed to be stored in an encrypted format that allows websites to confirm what you’re entering without directly reading it. But as Krebs on Security first reported, various errors seem to have caused Facebook’s systems to log some passwords in plain text since as early as 2012. Facebook noticed the problem in January and said in March that the issue had been resolved.

Who could ever imagine imagine FaceBook treating users' passwords as if it were a game.


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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday April 19 2019, @02:14AM (1 child)

    by Gaaark (41) on Friday April 19 2019, @02:14AM (#832005) Journal

    What da fuck is Facebook Lite?
    Facebook for slow people? No, that's Facebook.
    FB for idiots? No, that's FB.

    Seriously...wdf?

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @11:02AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @11:02AM (#832105)

    Let me google that for you ... on second thoughts, no: google it yourself!

    AC