Recently, Facebook has admitted
that the company has found some additional logs of Instagram passwords which
were stored in the database in a readable format. The company is not getting
out of troubles very soon. As per Facebook itself, this same issue has impacted
millions of Instagram users all around the world.
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This news spread wode just the day
after Facebook admitted that unintentionally it has uploaded email contacts of
around 1.5 million new users. And, now according to India shoppers big explosion is
being heard. Facebook now has millions of Instagram users' passwords exposed in
a data security lapse. “This caught our attention because our login systems are
designed to mask passwords using techniques that make them unreadable. We have
fixed these issues and as a precaution will be notifying everyone whose
passwords we found stored this way”, said Pedro Canahuati who is vice-president
at engineering, security and privacy block at Facebook.
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This password exposing is a part
of the security breach which once came into notice last month by Krebs on
Security. The company has been storing passwords of millions in plain text on
its internal servers. No matter, we fight for privacy, we won’t get that right.
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Last month only, Facebook said
that “hundreds of millions of Facebook Lite users” and “tens of millions of
other Facebook users” privacy has been jeopardized by this readable-format
passwords in their servers. Now, the company has updated that blog post and
said something new which anyone won’t want to hear or read- “This is an issue
that has already been widely reported, but we want to be clear that we simply
learned there were more passwords stored in this way, said by a Facebook
spokesperson.
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Here are some things which one
must know about this Facebook’s Instagram password controversy
1. Facebook and Instagram
passwords were not only stored in plain text, readable form but also can be
searched by Facebook employees.
2. The archives found that
unencrypted user passwords are dated back from 2012. So, this is happening from
2012 and we get to know this today.
How can one know if
higher password was exposed?
As per Facebook, it has started
sending emails to the users whose passwords were exposed. In the new blog post,
Facebook has mentioned about this- “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.”
First
things first, if you get any notification from Facebook through email that you
are the one whose password has been compromised. You must change your password
of Instagram as soon as possible. And, do not use this Instagram password at
any online platform instead go for Google or Facebook password. You can easily
change your password by going into Instagram Settings. Also, try to protect
your Facebook account too by two-factor authentication or using a security key.
Although on iPhones,
it is easier to keep your passwords secure. Thanks to the security Apple has
been providing and this is the reason people love to buy iPhones. But, on Android
devices, there are thick chances that you have to need to get your passwords
changed.
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