Facebook Confirms Millions of Instagram Passwords Were Stored in Plain Text

[CarpalMac]

Multi-billion dollar company and this is an example of how they look after a billion users most personal of data.

Just think about that, next time you log into one of their services...

And I see people on here moan about Amazon’s apparent invasion on privacy, how they don’t dare ever own an Echo.. and then they go and use Facebook Utter hypocrites!

Remember folks, Zuckerbeg would literally sell YOUR soul if he could get it, for cash...

The writing was on the wall about this years and years ago. Plenty of reports about Facebooks complete disgregard for security and privacy going back a way.

Almost tempting to register 1000 MR accounts, just to like your post.

 

[mi7chy]

Don't put all your passwords in one basket and, instead, use password tiers. Use a more complex/different password phrase for email, financial, utilities, casual web sites, etc. That way if one tier gets compromised it doesn't affect everything.

 

[multipasser]

And I see people on here moan about Amazon’s apparent invasion on privacy, how they don’t dare ever own an Echo.. and then they go and use Facebook Utter hypocrites!

Remember folks, Zuckerbeg would literally sell YOUR soul if he could get it, for cash...

The writing was on the wall about this years and years ago. Plenty of reports about Facebooks complete disgregard for security and privacy going back a way.

Lol, but a Echo or HomePod record and hear EVERYTHING you say and do in your house! This is the WORST kind of breach in privacy you can have. Facebook just 'knows' the info you put on it. It does not record what you say at home. Enjoy your Echo.

 

[lsutigerfan1976]

I feel like if you still use Facebook. You deserve whatever happens to you. lol

 

[CarpalMac]

Don't put all your passwords in one basket and, instead, use password tiers. Use a more complex/different password phrase for email, financial, utilities, casual web sites, etc. That way if one tier gets compromised it doesn't affect everything.

And use unique email addresses. E.g. Yourname+Facebook@gmail.com for the same reason and if your account is compromised, you'll know where from.

 

[apolloa]

Lol, but a Echo or HomePod record and hear EVERYTHING you say and do in your house! This is the WORST kind of breach in privacy you can have. Facebook just 'knows' the info you put on it. It does not record what you say at home. Enjoy your Echo.

Can’t tell if your serious or sarcastic?

 

[macduke]

Anyone want to take wagers on the next FaceBook scandal? I bet around 5pm there will be a report that FaceBook was selling wheelchairs to handicapped people that have hidden GPS trackers. Any takers?

 

[pika2000]

And tomorrow, nobody will care.
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Anyone want to take wagers on the next FaceBook scandal? I bet around 5pm there will be a report that FaceBook was selling wheelchairs to handicapped people that have hidden GPS trackers. Any takers?

And people will forget about it in 12 hours.

 

[ashdelacroix]

Can’t tell if your serious or sarcastic?

Either way, he may be concerned that Facebook is developing an Echo competitor...

 

[44267547]

Facebook is like the new Yahoo for 2018/2019. Completely worthless site.

 

[robertcoogan]

Even money says nothing happened to them for this. Once upon a time, the FCC would be involved. Not anymore.

 

[rmoliv]

Facebook never ceases to amaze me.

 

[gaximus]

I like how MacRumors hides your password, even if you type it directly into a comment.
see:
**********
works with SSNs as well:
***-**-****

 

[theapplehead]

Another day, another security breach. All is right with the world.

 

[ashdelacroix]

There is much hyperbole on the Web (an example of litotes if ever there was one), but I think it is true to say that Facebook is one of the most dangerous companies ever to have existed. Their terrible ethics, multiplied by their sheer global reach, create a platform of the most dubious and insidious kind imaginable. It can hardly be comprehended. It appears more and more as if Facebook has been complicit in the most shocking kinds of technical, legal and ethical breaches that, for a company of its size and influence, must count among the most detestable corporate actions of the Internet age. I beg everyone to delete their Facebook account, as many people are doing, and rid yourself of this corporation from every aspect of your life. If what we are seeing is, as I suspect, just the tip of the iceberg, we will witness yet more scandals. All trust has gone. Already we have had an avalanche of revelations, enough surely to make every Facebook member consider whether they should continue to support it.

 

[Jim Higgins]

And people are still trusting and using Facebook, why again?

Stupidity.
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I understand Facebook has made many mistakes, but lately the media seems to be trying so hard to destroy Facebook.

Good, burn Facebook to the ground.

 

[9081094]

And use unique email addresses. E.g. Yourname+Facebook@gmail.com for the same reason and if your account is compromised, you'll know where from.

That’s a clever solution. Thanks for the tip.

 

[apolloa]

Either way, he may be concerned that Facebook is developing an Echo competitor...

Well fact Amazon do NOT record every single thing you say without hearing the keyword, and you have a simple switch to turn that off.
I doubt Facebook will give you that option, easily.

 

[Shanghaichica]

Another day, another Facebook scandal.

 

[small_CAPS]

Oh well, not surprised. Just updated my passwords.

 

[Rogifan]

Facebook is evil.

 

[jrlcopy]

FYI this may be how people are being forced to follow "streetartglobe". It's an account no one ever remembers following, and if you block them the account then unblocks itself and refollows itself. Has happened to numerous people I know.

 

[Bin Cook]

And use unique email addresses. E.g. Yourname+Facebook@gmail.com for the same reason and if your account is compromised, you'll know where from.

Problem is that sites that DO sell your data regex out the + and don't accept it as a valid email. Too many of them for this advice to be useful. Sadly.

 

[iapplelove]

Never had a FB account and don’t use IG..

Again this is all small potatoes after the equifax breach..

Who cares if your IG password is stolen, just change it and get another.

 

[CarpalMac]

Problem is that sites that DO sell your data regex out the + and don't accept it as a valid email. Too many of them for this advice to be useful. Sadly.

True, for that method. Personally I have my own domain registered with a catch-all main account. All mail goes to this account regardless of the email address, e.g.:
Linkedin@mydomain.com
Macrumors@mydomain.com

They all go to the same address/account but are all uniquely identifiable. This is useful as not only can I see who has been breached or sold (as mentioned before) but also I can black hole the account meaning it doesn't clutter up my personal address.

it is also useful as it means that any login is practically worthless even if they have obtained it along with my password as they would need to know what are used for each individual account and often I vary it slightly.

I can see the traffic going through the addresses and can see how much spam goes to the old LinkedIn, Tumblr and Lastfm addresses, to name a few who've been compromised. It works well for me.