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Meta Fined $100M For Storing Over Half A Billion Passwords In Plaintext: Mark Zuckerberg-Led Company Reportedly Had 2000 Employees Querying Them 9M Times - Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META)

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Meta Platforms has been fined $101.5 million by Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) for a 2019 security breach.

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Meta Fined $100M For Storing Over Half A Billion Passwords In Plaintext: Mark Zuckerberg-Led Company Reportedly Had 2000 Employees Querying Them 9M Times - Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META)

Meta Platforms has been fined $101.5 million by Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) for a 2019 security breach.

09/28/2024 6:32:47 a.m.·New York, United States

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Target fined 91 million euros by the EU for storing millions of passwords in plain text

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta 91 million euros (about 101.5 million dollars) for not protecting user passwords. This fine is a response...

09/28/2024 8:00:32 a.m.·Portugal

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Meta Fined $102 Million For Storing 600 Million Passwords In Plain Text

09/27/2024 11:30:00 p.m.

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Meta Fined $101M For Storing Millions of User Passwords In Plaintext And Sharing With Employees

Tech giant Meta has been scrutinized for its shocking behavior in terms of storing user passwords. The company was recently fined a whopping $101 million USD (or 91 million euro to be exact) for the behavior by Irish officials. Millions of user passwords were not only stored in plain text but they were also shared with the company’s employees, being accessible to the masses. As one can expect, it’s a major cardinal sin that the tech giant took p…

09/28/2024 9:16:00 a.m.

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Meta Hit with $101.5 Million Fine for Storing Passwords in Plain Text

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has levied a hefty fine of $101.5 million (€91 million) against Meta, following an exhaustive investigation into a 2019 security breach. The probe revealed that the company had inadvertently stored users’ passwords in plain text, a glaring lapse in security protocol. Initially, Meta had announced the discovery of some user passwords stored in plain text on its servers in January 2019. However, a subsequ…

09/28/2024 6:16:00 a.m.

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Meta Fined $102 Million For Storing 600 Million Passwords In Plain Text

Meta has been fined $101.5 million by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for storing over half a billion user passwords in plain text for years, with some engineers having access to this data for over a decade. The issue, discovered in 2019, predominantly affected non-US users, especially those using Facebook Lite. AppleInsider reports: Meta Ireland was found guilty of infringing four parts of GDPR, including how it "failed to notify the…

09/27/2024 11:30:00 p.m.

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Meta Fined $100M For Storing Over Half A Billion Passwords In Plaintext: Mark Zuckerberg-Led Company Reportedly Had 2000 Employees Querying Them 9M Times - Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META)

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Meta Fined $100M For Storing Over Half A Billion Passwords In Plaintext: Mark Zuckerberg-Led Company Reportedly Had 2000 Employees Querying Them 9M Times - Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META)

Meta Fined $100M For Storing Over Half A Billion Passwords In Plaintext: Mark Zuckerberg-Led Company Reportedly Had 2000 Employees Querying Them 9M Times - Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META)

Target fined 91 million euros by the EU for storing millions of passwords in plain text

Target fined 91 million euros by the EU for storing millions of passwords in plain text

Meta Fined $102 Million For Storing 600 Million Passwords In Plain Text

Meta Fined $102 Million For Storing 600 Million Passwords In Plain Text

Meta Fined $101M For Storing Millions of User Passwords In Plaintext And Sharing With Employees

Meta Fined $101M For Storing Millions of User Passwords In Plaintext And Sharing With Employees

Meta Hit with $101.5 Million Fine for Storing Passwords in Plain Text

Meta Hit with $101.5 Million Fine for Storing Passwords in Plain Text

Meta Fined $102 Million For Storing 600 Million Passwords In Plain Text

Meta Fined $102 Million For Storing 600 Million Passwords In Plain Text

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