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In April, with the GDPR deadline and its requirement for data portability looming, Instagram released the long-anticipated download your data tool. The feature gave users the ability to download images, posts and comments.
Unfortunately, Instagram turned the task of downloading your data into an exercise in exposing people’s passwords in plain text. Thankfully, the bug in the “download your data” tool only affected a handful of users, it said.
As The Information reported last week, Instagram told affected users on Thursday night that if they’d used the “download your data” feature, their passwords were showing up in plaintext in the URL of their browsers.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?&tag=Instagram
In April, with the GDPR deadline and its requirement for data portability looming, Instagram released the long-anticipated download your data tool. The feature gave users the ability to download images, posts and comments.
Unfortunately, Instagram turned the task of downloading your data into an exercise in exposing people’s passwords in plain text. Thankfully, the bug in the “download your data” tool only affected a handful of users, it said.
As The Information reported last week, Instagram told affected users on Thursday night that if they’d used the “download your data” feature, their passwords were showing up in plaintext in the URL of their browsers.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?&tag=Instagram