Facebook says it stored millions of unencrypted Instagram passwords

Prem44433 · 发表于 2019-04-20 09:23:40

Facebook, Instagram’s parent company, revealed last month that the unencrypted passwords of hundreds of millions of users had been stored, putting the number of Instagram users affected in the tens of thousands.[br][br]

[br][br]Facebook says it stored millions of unencrypted Instagram passwords(AP)[br]“Millions” of Instagram users had their passwords stored in unencrypted form on internal servers, Facebook said Thursday, raising its original estimate of tens of thousands.[br][br]“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 said in a blog post.[br][br]“We will be notifying these users as we did the others. Our investigation has determined that these stored passwords were not internally abused or improperly accessed,” the social network said.[br][br]Facebook, Instagram’s parent company, revealed last month that the unencrypted passwords of hundreds of millions of users had been stored, putting the number of Instagram users affected in the tens of thousands.[br][br]The social network’s handling of user data has been a flashpoint for controversy since it admitted last year that Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy, used an app that may have hijacked the private details of 87 million users.[br][br]Facebook has announced a series of moves to tighten handling of data, including eliminating most of its data-sharing partnerships with outside companies.[br][br]The California firm reaches an estimated 2.7 billion people with its core social network, Instagram and messaging applications.