Meta fined €91m over password breach

It follows an investigation into Meta inadvertently storing certain user passwords in plaintext on its internal systems, meaning they were not protected by encryption
Meta fined €91m over password breach
Meta inadvertently stored certain user passwords in plaintext (PA)

Facebook parent company Meta has been fined €91m by the Data Protection Commission.

It follows an investigation into Meta inadvertently storing certain user passwords in plaintext on its internal systems, meaning they were not protected by encryption.

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