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Facebook says it stored 'millions' of unencrypted Instagram passwords

Facebook says it stored "millions" of unencrypted Instagram passwords on internal servers. [Photo: AFP]

"Millions" of Instagram users had their passwords stored in unencrypted form on internal servers, Facebook said Thursday, raising its original estimate of tens of thousands.

"We discovered additional logs of Instagram passwords being stored in a readable format. We now estimate that this issue impacted millions of Instagram users," Facebook said in a blog post.

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