Facebook also logged passwords of millions of Instagram accounts in plain text

Facebook has also logged the passwords of millions of Instagram users in plain text and stored them on internal servers. Users will be notified. Earlier, the company announced that this happened to hundreds of millions of Facebook accounts.

Facebook has updated its March news story. It now states that logs were found containing Instagram passwords in a readable format. Facebook estimates that it concerns passwords of ‘millions’ of users.

If a user’s password was stored in plain text, that user will now be notified, Facebook says. According to Facebook, its own investigation has shown that the passwords have not been misused internally and that there has been no unauthorized access.

In late March, Facebook revealed that it had logged passwords of 200 million to possibly 600 million users in plain text for years and stored them on internal servers. More than twenty thousand employees were able to search it. The unencrypted storage happened due to a series of security flaws in applications that logged passwords. That was brought out by an anonymous Facebook employee, after which Facebook confirmed it. Even then, Facebook said it had not found any indications of abuse.