# Facebook Reveals Millions of More Instagram Passwords Were Exposed

**URL:** <https://mpsocial.com/t/facebook-reveals-millions-of-more-instagram-passwords-were-exposed/64113>\
**Category:** Social Media News\
**Created:** [April 19, 2019, 2:27pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/facebook-reveals-millions-of-more-instagram-passwords-were-exposed/64113 "2019-04-19T14:27:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![RustyBread](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/rustybread/32/61249_2.png) [@RustyBread](https://mpsocial.com/u/RustyBread)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 2:27pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/facebook-reveals-millions-of-more-instagram-passwords-were-exposed/64113/1 "2019-04-19T14:27:59Z")

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Facebook has now revealed millions of more Instagram users passwords were exposed.

> **[Keeping Passwords Secure | Facebook Newsroom](https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/03/keeping-passwords-secure/)**
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> As part of a routine security review in January, we found that some user passwords were being stored in a readable format within our internal data storage systems. We have fixed these issues and as a precaution we will be notifying everyone whose...

“_Since this post was published, we discovered additional logs of Instagram passwords being stored in a readable format. We now estimate that this issue impacted millions of Instagram users. 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)_”

How convenient to update this when the Meuller report dropped. That should cover this up pretty well 🙂

Although they do mention “To be clear, these passwords were never visible to anyone outside of Facebook and we have found no evidence to date that anyone internally abused or improperly accessed them.”

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**Author:** ![Pizza](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/pizza/32/30655_2.png) [@Pizza](https://mpsocial.com/u/Pizza)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 2:52pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/facebook-reveals-millions-of-more-instagram-passwords-were-exposed/64113/2 "2019-04-19T14:52:46Z")

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oh nooooo some 23 year old tech yuppie who makes 120k a year and get free avocados whenever they want saw my passworrrrdddddd 😱

But you’re right, nice of them to release it when the Mueller report dropped!

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**Author:** ![wortime](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/wortime/32/30775_2.png) [@wortime](https://mpsocial.com/u/wortime)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 3:01pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/facebook-reveals-millions-of-more-instagram-passwords-were-exposed/64113/3 "2019-04-19T15:01:31Z")

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> [@RustyBread](#):
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> “To be clear, these passwords were never visible to anyone outside of Facebook and we have found no evidence to date that anyone internally abused or improperly accessed them.”

They are so trustworthy, of course they wouldn’t lie to us that they were leaked to public/hackers.

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**Author:** ![RustyBread](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/rustybread/32/61249_2.png) [@RustyBread](https://mpsocial.com/u/RustyBread)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 3:03pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/facebook-reveals-millions-of-more-instagram-passwords-were-exposed/64113/4 "2019-04-19T15:03:07Z")

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Pshhh not Facebook!

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**Author:** ![Bartholomeo](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/bartholomeo/32/30923_2.png) [@Bartholomeo](https://mpsocial.com/u/Bartholomeo)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2019, 8:13pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/facebook-reveals-millions-of-more-instagram-passwords-were-exposed/64113/5 "2019-04-20T20:13:55Z")

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Oh, pretty sure will pop up a tsunami of selly shops, selling Aged accs lmfao

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**Author:** ![Bartholomeo](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/bartholomeo/32/30923_2.png) [@Bartholomeo](https://mpsocial.com/u/Bartholomeo)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2019, 9:18pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/facebook-reveals-millions-of-more-instagram-passwords-were-exposed/64113/6 "2019-04-20T21:18:32Z")

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also this is weird, even more peps actually giving email login info.  
Intro of the article killed me lol

> **[Facebook uploaded 1.5 million people’s email contacts without permission](https://thenextweb.com/facebook/2019/04/18/facebook-uploaded-1-5-million-peoples-email-contacts-without-permission/)**
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> Welcome to the newest episode of "Facebook screws up daily." it uploaded contact lists of over 1.5 million people since 2016, without their permission

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**Author:** ![mithrandir](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/mithrandir/32/35041_2.png) [@mithrandir](https://mpsocial.com/u/mithrandir)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 1:57am UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/facebook-reveals-millions-of-more-instagram-passwords-were-exposed/64113/7 "2019-04-21T01:57:33Z")

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In the meantime they shut your account down if you repost something or delete the likes you give via third party app. 😂

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**Author:** ![Itachi](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/itachi/32/41299_2.png) [@Itachi](https://mpsocial.com/u/Itachi)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 8:34am UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/facebook-reveals-millions-of-more-instagram-passwords-were-exposed/64113/8 "2019-04-21T08:34:21Z")

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I wonder if anyone here got notified by fb that their password was leaked?

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**Author:** ![kripke](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/kripke/32/31496_2.png) [@kripke](https://mpsocial.com/u/kripke)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 4:07pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/facebook-reveals-millions-of-more-instagram-passwords-were-exposed/64113/9 "2019-04-21T16:07:27Z")

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I wonder if anybody here is changing passwords because of this?

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**Author:** ![Avo](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/avo/32/29355_2.png) [@Avo](https://mpsocial.com/u/Avo)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 7:25am UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/facebook-reveals-millions-of-more-instagram-passwords-were-exposed/64113/10 "2019-04-25T07:25:59Z")

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Received the message from IG app on my personal account a couple of days ago that my password had been stored in a readable format.  
Password changed since
