Facebook admits it was actually ‘millions’ of users who had their Instagram passwords compromised

Facebook has admitted millions of Instagram users’ passwords were vulnerable and being stored in a readable format within its internal storage systems.

The update was snuck through in a blog post, initially posted on 21 March, with the language changing from “thousands” to “millions”.

Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash

The update was issued around midnight on Friday (Australian Eastern Standard Time), and posted within the original March blog post.

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