Meta faces consequences for storing millions of passwords in plaintext
Meta has been fined $101 million by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission for storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext. We don’t really need to point the obvious, that storing passwords in plaintext is major violation of security best practices. Disclosed by Meta in 2019, it was then revealed that passwords for various Meta-owned platforms were logged in plaintext and stored…
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