Public urged to change FB and Instagram passwords upon alert


  • Nation
  • Monday, 25 Mar 2019

Instagram has noticed that 'sometimes what you want to share isn’t for everyone'. The social media platform's latest feature lets you limit who gets to see your stories. — dpa

PETALING JAYA: The public have been urged to change their Facebook and Instagram passwords, if they have received notifications to do so, says the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC).

The commission came out with a statement yesterday after Facebook acknowledged on Thursday that it left hundreds of millions of user passwords readable by its emplo­yees for years.

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