Meta Fined $102 Million Over Password Storage Safety Breach

Name: Meta Fined $102 Million Over Password Storage Safety Breach
Uploaded: 2024-11-04T16:43:06Z
Description: Facebook’s parent company Meta has been fined $102 million (€91 million) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for incorrectly storing user passwords. An investigation was launched in April 2019 after Meta informed the DPC it had accidentally stored users' passwords on internal systems.

Facebook’s parent company Meta has been fined $102 million (€91 million) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for incorrectly storing user passwords. An investigation was launched in April 2019 after Meta informed the DPC it had accidentally stored users' passwords on internal systems.

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