Facebook Says Instagram Passwords Were Visible on Internal Storage System
April 18 2019 - 4:07PM
Dow Jones News
By Stephen Nakrosis
Facebook Inc. (FB) on Thursday updated a blog post from March,
which said the company discovered some user passwords were being
stored in a readable format on some of the company's internal
systems, to say the issue affected millions of Instagram
passwords.
The original announcement, made in a March 21 blog post, said
the matter came to the company's attention because its systems are
designed to make passwords unreadable. Facebook said it fixed the
issue, adding the passwords were never visible to outsiders and
that the company was working to notify anyone whose password was
found in this situation.
The update Thursday said the company discovered additional
Instagram passwords that were stored in a readable format,
impacting millions of that platform's users.
Facebook said this newly found group of passwords wasn't
improperly accessed or internally abused, and that it would notify
affected users.
--Write to Stephen Nakrosis at stephen.nakrosis@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
April 18, 2019 15:52 ET (19:52 GMT)
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