Security News

Facebook Stored Millions of Instagram Users' Passwords in Plaintext
2019-04-18 19:33

Facebook late last month revealed that the social media company mistakenly stored passwords for "hundreds of millions" of Facebook users in plaintext, including "tens of thousands" passwords of...

Who's using Mueller Report Day to bury bad news? If you guessed Facebook, you're right: Millions more passwords stored in plaintext
2019-04-18 18:23

Wham, bam, gee thanks, Instagram While journalists and netizens are distracted digesting the heavily redacted 400-plus-page Mueller report, released within the past few hours, today will be a good...

Facebook Mistakenly Stored Millions of Users' Passwords in Plaintext
2019-03-21 18:48

Holy moly, Facebook is again at the center of a new privacy controversy after revealing today that its platform mistakenly kept a copy of passwords for "hundreds of millions" users in plaintext....

Report: Facebook Stored Millions of Passwords in Plaintext
2019-03-21 18:33

Facebook Under Fresh Scrutiny Over How It Stored User PasswordsFacebook has corrected an internal security issue that allowed the company to store millions of user passwords in plaintext that were...

Let's spin Facebook's Wheel of Misfortune! Clack-clack-clack... clack... You've won '100s of millions of passwords stored in plaintext'
2019-03-21 17:52

Credentials logged for years is antisocial network's latest Zuck-up Facebook today admitted it stored "some" of its addicts' account passwords in a plaintext readable format. For "some", read...

Ep. 022 – Plaintext passwords, cryptocoin criminality and the Momo monstrosity [PODCAST]
2019-03-06 00:40

Here's the latest episode of the Naked Security podcast - listen now!

Instagram accidentally reveals plaintext passwords in URLs
2018-11-20 11:13

It's yet another security stumble following the massive Facebook hack in September, and it likely points to shoddy encryption practices.

Instagram Accidentally Exposed Some Users' Passwords In Plaintext
2018-11-19 10:18

Instagram has recently patched a security issue in its website that might have accidentally exposed some of its users' passwords in plain text. The company recently started notifying affected...

Plaintext Passwords Often Put Industrial Systems at Risk: Report
2018-10-23 12:01

ATLANTA — SECURITYWEEK 2018 ICS CYBER SECURITY CONFERENCE — Plaintext passwords crossing the network, outdated operating systems, direct connections to the Internet, and the lack of automated...

TeenSafe phone monitoring app leaks teens’ iCloud logins in plaintext
2018-05-22 14:44

The "secure" monitoring app is used by over a million parents.