Facebook Quietly Updates Last Month's Security Disclosure To Add That 'Millions' of Instagram Users Are Also Impacted (fb.com) 20
Last month, Facebook disclosed that hundreds of millions of users on its platform had their account passwords stored in plain text -- in some cases going back to 2012 -- and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees. Today, the company quietly updated that blog post to reveal that Instagram users are also impacted. It said, in the update: Since this post was published, we discovered additional logs of Instagram passwords being stored in a readable format. We now estimate that this issue impacted millions of Instagram users. 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.
"FaceBook Quietly" (Score:4, Insightful)
"FaceBook quietly..."
That happens a lot.
Re: "FaceBook Quietly" (Score:3, Interesting)
And you damn well know Facebook was intentionally holding on to this information just to release it on "Mueller Report" day so it hides in all the other noise. Scroll up, probably Facebook employees...
Re:"FaceBook Quietly" (Score:4, Interesting)
"FaceBook quietly disappeared forever from the Internet yesterday" is the only news I want to read.
Re: (Score:2)
A government monopoly at least nominally has the interests of the people living in the country as a goal.
A corporate monopoly most certainly does not.
Criminals (Score:1)
At what point do a series of mistakes make you a criminal. If I asked for and obtained Zuck's email password and then I stole all of his contacts, I'd be prosecuted under the CFFA.