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Meta pays the price for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext
Officials in Ireland have fined Meta $101 million for storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext and making them broadly available to company employees.
Meta fined $101.8M for storing 600M Facebook passwords in plain text
Meta received a fine of over $100 million in a five-year EU investigation of about 600 million Facebook passwords stored in plaintext.
Meta Handed $100 Million Fine in Ireland Over Password Storage
Ireland’s data protection watchdog fined Meta Platforms after the Facebook and Instagram owner stored passwords of some social media users on its internal systems without proper safeguards.
Meta fined $101.5M for 2019 breach that exposed hundreds of millions of Facebook passwords
Meta has been hit with yet another privacy penalty in Europe. The DPC opened a statutory inquiry into the incident in question in April 2019 under the bloc's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) after Meta,
Meta Faces $101 Million Fine for Storing Facebook Passwords in Plaintext
Five years after the incident was uncovered and fixed, a European regulator is penalizing Facebook parent company Meta for violating the European Union's GDPR laws on data privacy.
Meta fined $101M in Ireland after failing to encrypt user passwords
Ireland's Data Protection Commission on Friday fined Meta more than $100 million for privacy law violations related to failing to properly encrypt and store passwords of the tech giant's users.
Meta Fined $102M for Storing Facebook Passwords in Plain Text
"It is widely accepted that user passwords should not be stored in plaintext, considering the risks of abuse that arise from persons accessing such data," said Deputy Commissioner
Facebook parent company fined €91m over password storage
Facebook parent company Meta has been fined €91m (£75m) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) following an investigation into the storage of passwords. An inquiry was launched in April 2019 after Meta notified the DPC that it had inadvertently stored certain passwords of social media users on its internal systems without encryption.
Meta Fined €91 Million by Irish Regulator Over Password Breach
Ireland’s data protection commission has fined Meta Platforms Inc.’s Irish branch €91 million ($102 million) following an investigation into password storing by the company, according to a statement by the regulator.
Meta hit with $102 million privacy fine from European Union over 2019 password security lapse
Meta was punished with a 91 million euro fine from the social media giant’s European Union privacy regulator over a security lapse involving passwords for Facebook users.
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EU privacy regulator fines Meta 91 million euros over password storage
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