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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text

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Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta €91 million for a 2019 incident wherein the company stored millions of Facebook and Instagram passwords in plain text.

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old system of writing them down on paper

That’s harder to steal/hack by someone across the globe.

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