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Instagram Bug Inadvertently Exposed User Passwords

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Nov 19, 2018, 8:13 AM by Eric M. Zeman

A bug in Instagram's Download Your Data tool left user passwords exposed. "If someone submitted their login information to use the Instagram 'Download Your Data' tool, they were able to see their password information in the URL of the page," said Instagram in a statement provided to The Verge. "This information was not exposed to anyone else, and we have made changes so this no longer happens." Instagram claims the issue was "discovered internally and affected a very small number of people." Instagram has notified those impacted by the breach and warned them to change their passwords as a precaution. Instagram debuted the Download Your Data feature in April as a way for users to keep a backup of all their data.

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