Facebook has updated 'tens of thousands of plaintext Instagram passwords ended up in logfile' to say it was more like a million.

By Uzair Amir

Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords in a readable format and asked users for their email’s passwords for “verification.” On 21st March, 2018, the social media giant Facebook admitted that it stored passwords of 600 million users including “tens of thousands” of passwords belonging to Instagram users in plain-text which were accessible to over 20,000 […]

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