{"id":6006,"date":"2018-11-30T03:03:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T08:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/?p=6006"},"modified":"2018-11-30T03:03:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T08:03:43","slug":"instagram-accidentally-exposed-some-users-passwords-in-plaintext-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/2018\/11\/30\/instagram-accidentally-exposed-some-users-passwords-in-plaintext-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram Accidentally Exposed Some Users&#8217; Passwords In Plaintext"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram Accidentally Exposed Some Users&#8217; Passwords In Plaintext<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Swati Khandelwal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Instagram recently patched a security issue in its website that was responsible of accidentally exposing some its users passwords in plain text.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The bug originated in the feature called \u00a0&#8220;Download Your Data&#8221; that allows users to download a copy of their data shared on the social media platform. Plaintext passwords of some users who had used this feature had their passwords were included in the URL as plaintext.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The company has assured users that the stored data has been deleted from the servers \u00a0and the tool has now been updated to resolve the issue, which &#8220;affected a very small number of people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Instagram suggest that affected users to change their passwords and clear their browser history as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reference: <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2018\/11\/instagram-password-hack.html\">https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2018\/11\/instagram-password-hack.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram Accidentally Exposed Some Users&#8217; Passwords In Plaintext Swati Khandelwal &nbsp; Instagram recently patched a security issue in its website that was responsible of accidentally exposing some its users passwords in plain text. &nbsp; The bug originated in the feature called \u00a0&#8220;Download Your Data&#8221; that allows users to download a copy of their data shared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[717573],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-13-disaster-recovery-business-continuity","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6007,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006\/revisions\/6007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}