Social media giant, Facebook quietly admitted that 2 Millions more Instagram users were affected by a password security drop. It also said in late March that it had stored passwords in plain text so that its thousands of employees can search them. It supposed that the passwords stocked up on internet company servers, where no outcast can easily access them.
Yesterday Facebook said in a blog post that it now estimates that millions of Instagram users were affected by this lapse in the place of ten thousand as it was in the original reports. In March also the matter affected hundreds of millions of Facebook Lite users also along with millions of Facebook users.
Facebook opt one of the busiest news days in American politics
Facebook admitted that millions more Instagram users were affected by a security lapse than it has initially been disclosed. The surprising thing is that the social media giant chose one of the busiest news days in American Politics to admit this. Yesterday at 10 am ET, the time William Barr, the attorney general, finished his news conference on the release of the report of the special counsel, Robert Mueller, Facebook updated its past blog post of 21st March, in which it revealed the whole thing.
It confirmed that it had mistakenly stored passwords of hundreds of million people unencrypted to include a sentence confirming that millions more Instagram accounts had also been affected.
In its update of the past blog post, Facebook said that it had discovered extra logs of Instagram passwords being stored in a readable format. It also noted that ‘we at present consider that this matter affected millions of Instagram users.’
On the other hand, a Facebook spokesman told media that there is no proof of abuse or misuse of the passwords. He added that ‘this is a matter which has been already reported; however, we want to be clear that we merely learned there were more passwords stored in this way. There is not at all any kind of abuse or else misuse of these passwords too.
