Facebook on Thursday admitted that “millions” of Instagram users had their passwords stored in unencrypted form on internal servers.
In a blog post, Facebook said that it had discovered additional logs of Instagram passwords “stored in a readable format”. The issue is said to have have impacted millions of Instagram users, the social media giant added.
“We will be notifying these users as we did the others. Our investigation has determined that these stored passwords were not internally abused or improperly accessed,” Facebook said.
Facebook is also the parent company of Instagram and WhatsApp messaging application.
Last month, Facebook had revealed that it had stored unencrypted passwords of millions of users, including that of Instagram, in plain text on its internal servers, leaving them exposed to employees of the social networking company.
On several occasions before, alarm was raised over data privacy and safety setting for users of Facebook. Last year, the social networking giant came under heavy criticism when it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica, which was hired by Donald Trump during his election campaign, accessed information on voters without their consent.
In another instance, a coding flaw exposed private data of over 50 million Facebook users.
Facebook also admitted to collecting information from non-users or people beyond their social network use.
