About a month ago, the social networking site Facebook recognized a new technical problem that almost put user data at risk, increasing the company's problems with the privacy of its users, and it is about the passwords of more than 200 million users on Facebook stored in the company's internal servers without encryption and obviously , Which made it possible for company employees to access this information.
Facebook acknowledged this, but completely denied that anyone outside the company had seen or used these passwords for any purpose, noting that it would start sending notices to users affected, but today a new problem to add to the company's series of problems with privacy.
Where Facebook acknowledged yesterday night that for three full years, beginning in 2016, the company has stored the passwords of 1.5 million users on Instagram and without encryption, which may put their data at risk, and Facebook pointed out that this was not intended , While confirming that its investigations revealed the lack of exploitation of data for personal purposes, and stressed that the affected users will be informed in order to change their passwords.
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