Facebook exposed millions of Instagram passwords
5 years, 8 months ago

Facebook exposed millions of Instagram passwords

The Quint  

San Francisco, April 19 A day after admitting it "unintentionally" uploaded emails of nearly 1.5 million of new users, Facebook has now revealed that millions of Instagram passwords were stored on its servers in a readable format. Last month, Facebook said that it fixed a security issue wherein millions of its users' passwords were stored in plain text and "readable" format for years and were searchable by thousands of its employees. We have fixed these issues and as a precaution will be notifying everyone whose passwords we found stored this way," wrote Pedro Canahuati, Vice President, Engineering, Security and Privacy at Facebook. In March, a report by Krebs On Security claimed that around 200-600 million Facebook users may have had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by over 20,000 Facebook employees.

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Facebook, Instagram hacked? Meta users wonder what's causing outage
10 months ago

Facebook, Instagram hacked? Meta users wonder what's causing outage

Hindustan Times  

After Meta's social media platforms Facebook and Instagram suffered global outage, several users took to Elon Musk-owned X raising concerns if their accounts had been compromised. “Make sure yall change yall passwords when yall get back in yall Facebook & Instagram #hacked,” a user named NOVA posted. Meta's response on outage On global Facebook and Instagram outage, Meta said it …

Instagram rolls out new security feature to help protect hacked accounts
3 years, 5 months ago

Instagram rolls out new security feature to help protect hacked accounts

The Hindu  

Facebook-owned Instagram Inc said on Tuesday it has rolled out a new security feature for users whose accounts have been hacked. The ‘Security Checkup’ feature will help users add an extra layer of protection to their previously compromised accounts by checking login activity, reviewing profile information, confirming the accounts that share login information and updating account recovery contact information such …

What Really Caused Facebook's 500M-User Data Leak?
55 years ago

What Really Caused Facebook's 500M-User Data Leak?

Wired  

Since Saturday, a massive trove of Facebook data has circulated publicly, splashing information from roughly 533 million Facebook users across the internet. Or was it the 419 million Facebook user records, including hundreds of millions of phone numbers, names, and Facebook IDs, scraped from the social network by bad actors before a 2018 Facebook policy change, that were exposed publicly …

Explained: Leaked Data of 533mn Facebook Users Reemerges Online, Why FB's Reply is Unconvincing
3 years, 9 months ago

Explained: Leaked Data of 533mn Facebook Users Reemerges Online, Why FB's Reply is Unconvincing

News 18  

Facebook is back in the limelight for all the wrong reasons, and this time, a new report claims that the personal data of over 533 million users have surfaced on a hacker forum, practically for free of cost. Both the Business Insider team and Gal reportedly reviewed a sample of the leaked data and verified several records by matching known …

Phone Numbers, Private Info of 500 Million Facebook Users Leaked, Company Says Issue Fixed in 2019
3 years, 9 months ago

Phone Numbers, Private Info of 500 Million Facebook Users Leaked, Company Says Issue Fixed in 2019

News 18  

A leaker says they are offering information on more than 500 million Facebook users – including phone numbers and other data – virtually for free. The database appears to be the same set of Facebook-linked telephone numbers that has been circulating in hacker circles since January and whose existence was first reported by tech publication Motherboard, according to Alon Gal, …

Facebook Data On More Than 500M Accounts Found Online
3 years, 9 months ago

Facebook Data On More Than 500M Accounts Found Online

News 18  

Details from more than 500 million Facebook users have been found available on a website for hackers. According to that publication, it has info from 106 countries including phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, and email addresses. In 2018, the social media giant disabled a feature that allowed users to search for one another via phone number following …

Instagram Had a Major Bug That Could Have Given Hackers Full Control of Your Account
4 years, 3 months ago

Instagram Had a Major Bug That Could Have Given Hackers Full Control of Your Account

News 18  

Instagram reportedly had a major bug that could have allowed hackers to remotely gain full access to your account. Making matters worse, the bug could have allowed attackers to also get access to your entire contacts list, along with your phone camera and location data. If unsuspecting users downloaded the file and open the Instagram app again, the remote access …

400 million Facebook users' phone numbers LEAKED in privacy lapse
5 years, 4 months ago

400 million Facebook users' phone numbers LEAKED in privacy lapse

India TV News  

Phone numbers of as many as 400 million Facebook users have been leaked, news agency AFP quoted the US media as saying. According to technology news site TechCruch, an exposed server stored 419 million records on users across several databases - including 133 million US accounts, more than 50 million in Vietnam, and 18 million in Britain. Facebook user IDs …

Facebook leak of millions of user passwords investigated by Irish privacy regulator
5 years, 8 months ago

Facebook leak of millions of user passwords investigated by Irish privacy regulator

Firstpost  

With ten investigation open in Europe, Irish commission opens yet another one against Facebook. Ireland’s privacy regulator says it’s investigating Facebook over the social media giant’s recent revelation that it had left hundreds of millions of user passwords exposed. The company said last month that it had inadvertently stored passwords for users of Facebook, Facebook Lite and Instagram in plain …

Facebook reveals millions of Instagram passwords were stored in plain text on its servers
5 years, 8 months ago

Facebook reveals millions of Instagram passwords were stored in plain text on its servers

Firstpost  

Our investigation has determined that these stored passwords were not internally abused, said Facebook Not a day goes by when we don’t hear of another Facebook screw-up. It has emerged that millions of Instagram users’ passwords were accidentally stored in plain text on Facebook’s servers. Just last month we had heard about how Facebook employees had access to around 600 …

Facebook removes over 540 million exposed user records stored on Amazon's servers
5 years, 9 months ago

Facebook removes over 540 million exposed user records stored on Amazon's servers

India Today  

Facebook is in soup - again. Just last month, it was reported that Account passwords of nearly 600 million Facebook users, that were stored in plain text, were accessible by over 20,000 Facebook employees. And now nearly two weeks later, a smilar report suggesting that millions records of Facebook users were exposed on Amazon's servers. According to a Bloomberg report, …

Facebook employees had access to 600 mn passwords stored in plain text, issue fixed
5 years, 9 months ago

Facebook employees had access to 600 mn passwords stored in plain text, issue fixed

Firstpost  

Facebook said that the issue has now been fixed but as a precaution, it will be notifying those affected. A glitch, or so Facebook wants us to believe, made hundreds of millions of users’ password appear in plain text to Facebook employees. The passwords were accessible to as many as 20,000 Facebook employees and dated back as early as 2012, …

600 million Facebook passwords seen by employees: What, how, when and why you must change your FB password now
5 years, 9 months ago

600 million Facebook passwords seen by employees: What, how, when and why you must change your FB password now

India Today  

It has just been three months into 2019 and we have already started hearing about fresh string of scandals coming out of Facebook -- once again. On Friday morning it was reported that Facebook stored passwords of hundreds of millions of its users in plain text and that these passwords were accessible and searchable by over 20,000 Facebook employees. On …

Facebook fixes glitch that exposed millions of user passwords to employees
5 years, 9 months ago

Facebook fixes glitch that exposed millions of user passwords to employees

Live Mint  

Facebook Inc said on Thursday it has resolved a glitch that exposed passwords of millions of users stored in readable format within its internal systems to its employees. The passwords were accessible to as many as 20,000 Facebook employees and dated back as early as 2012, cyber security blog KrebsOnSecurity, which first reported in the issue, said in its report. …

Facebook staff had access to hundreds of millions of people’s passwords
5 years, 9 months ago

Facebook staff had access to hundreds of millions of people’s passwords

CNN  

New York CNN Business — Facebook is back with another mea culpa. This time, the company acknowledges that it mishandled sensitive passwords for hundreds of millions of its users, primarily those who use its Facebook Lite product. On Thursday, Facebook said it didn’t properly mask the passwords of hundreds of millions of its users and stored them as plain text …

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