Facebook Now Says Its Password Leak Affected Instagram Users Too

Millions of passwords were stored in plain text on internal servers

People who believe Instagram is more careful with their personal information than its parent company might want to think again.

Facebook revealed last month that account passwords for hundreds of millions of users were stored on its internal servers in plain text, and today, it quietly updated its Newsroom post from March to report its discovery of millions of Instagram passwords suffering a similar fate.

The company would not specify how many Instagram users were impacted, only saying that the total was less than the hundreds of millions from Facebook Lite and the tens of millions from Facebook that were disclosed last month.

All impacted Instagram users will be notified, Facebook added.

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