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Meta was fined more than $100 million for a security breach that saw the company store some users' passwords in plain text.

Photography image monitoring and legal-tech service Pixsy has informed users that it suffered what it calls an “IT issue.” While it advises users to change their passwords to secure their accounts, it says no data was compromised.

Facebook has quietly revealed that it accidentally stored millions of Instagram user passwords in plaintext, a major security issue that the company had previously said only affected "tens of thousands" of users.

Yahoo announced back in September 2016 that an estimated 500 million accounts were stolen in late 2014. If you haven't changed your Yahoo or Flickr account passwords yet, there's now some even worse news: Yahoo just revealed that 1 billion accounts were hacked in late 2013.

If you're a member of the photo sharing service Flickr, you might want to change your password as soon as possible. Yahoo, which owns Flickr, has reportedly suffered a major hack.

If you use Dropbox to store and share your photos, the recent news of an alleged username and password hack probably has you worried. But according to Dropbox, it shouldn't. Not only was Dropbox not hacked, but any usernames/passwords that might have been compromised were reset months ago due to suspicious activity.

News about the Adobe account hack just keeps getting worse and worse. First, 2.9 million users had supposedly been hacked. Then, the number skyrocketed to a much more staggering 38 million. The number is now climbing yet again, and it seems that many of the people who have been hacked have not been notified by Adobe.