Facebook: er, actually it was millions of Instagram passwords we stored in plain text, not thousands
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Apr 19, 2019, 7:57 am175 pts
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With no fanfare whatsoever, Facebook has revealed that it stored the passwords for millions of Instagram accounts in plain text. The news came as the company quietly updated a blog post from last month in which it revealed that it had stored hundreds of millions of unencrypted Facebook passwords on its servers.…
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