Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords in plain text

Re:Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords in plain ... by wickrom on Friday April 19, 2019 @12:31AM (#19697120)

How does Facebook, hiring some of the best engineers in the industry with the biggest bucks ends up in such a mess

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Re:Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords in plain ... by jammygit on Friday April 19, 2019 @01:16AM (#19697265)

But think of the whiteboard algorithms they can all put together in a pinch

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Re:Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords in plain ... by happppy on Friday April 19, 2019 @12:44AM (#19697155)

maybe they need passwords to login as user?

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Re:Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords in plain ... by jordache on Friday April 19, 2019 @03:06PM (#19702120)

even if they want to emulate a user, they can do so without their password. Or if doing so in a simplistic way, they can login with said user's hashed password, instead of the original plaintext.

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