{"id":285222,"date":"2018-11-17T13:13:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T11:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=285222"},"modified":"2018-11-17T13:16:12","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T11:16:12","slug":"instagram-security-flaw-exposed-some-users-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/285222-instagram-security-flaw-exposed-some-users-passwords.html","title":{"rendered":"Instagram security flaw exposed some users&#8217; passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Instagram security leak left some users&#8217; passwords exposed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/11\/17\/instagram-password-data-bug\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Engadget reports<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Instagram&#8217;s tool that allows users to download a copy of their own data sent these users their passwords in plain text.<\/p>\n<p>These passwords were also stored on Facebook&#8217;s servers, although they have since been deleted.<\/p>\n<p>An Instagram spokesperson said that only a &#8220;small number of people&#8221; were affected.<\/p>\n<p>However, if these people were using a shared device or an insecure network, their account info was left wide open to being accessed by malicious parties.<\/p>\n<p>Instagram has informed all users whose information was exposed by this bug.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook, which owns Instagram, has come under increased scrutiny in recent months due to a string of security breaches.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/285088-south-african-government-demanded-user-data-from-facebook.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">South African government demanded user data from Facebook<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram&#8217;s tool that allows users to download their a copy of their own data sent these users their password in plain text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":263965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[15227,161,10424],"class_list":["post-285222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-cybersecurity","tag-facebook","tag-instagram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285224,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285222\/revisions\/285224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}