We go back to social media security issues, problems that ultimately affect us as users and that we should not tolerate under any circumstances. And it is that in the decade of data protection how can it be that some companies, which earn money thanks to what we share through them, do not protect our personal data ...
Well it seems that the boys of Instagram did not protect data as they should, they have leaked many contact details of a large part of its users, through its partner Chrtbox, and worst of all is that everything is due to the fact that the data was stored in a plain text database without filtering ...
Apparently it would have been leaked a database that included public Instagram data like profile pictures, biographies, and number of followers. But worst of all is that in this database too private information such as contact information such as phone numbers and emails was included, and even postal addresses of users…. And it was not only the guys from Instagram, the scandal could have also reached Facebook (if they do it with Instagram as they will not do it with their great social network), Twitter, and even Google, companies that would have made the mistake of recording all these access data of their users in plain text accessible to the most astute hackers ... Well, not very astute since the worst thing is that they would not even have encrypted these plain text files so the problem is more serious than it seems.
Company problems that we can remedy ourselves as users, in a way obviously. And it is that we have already told you on numerous occasions the importance of updating the password that we have in digital services with certain frequencyThis way we can make sure in a certain way that although our password and our data have been filtered we have changed it in a short time. Internet security is the handicap of many companies, they offer us a service and are obviously responsible for safeguarding our data in an encrypted way to protect us.
