Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords in plain text

Facebook says it stored millions of Instagram users’ passwords in plain text, leaving them exposed to people with access to certain internal systems. But as Krebs on Security first reported, various errors seem to have caused Facebook’s systems to log some passwords in plain text since as early as 2012. Facebook has had a particularly bad year when it comes to security issues — Cambridge Analytica, a giant hack, another hack — and this news comes the same day that we found out Facebook had been accessing and storing some users’ email contacts without their permission, after encouraging users to hand over their email address passwords.

Source: www.theverge.com