Meta Fined €91 Million for Storing Millions of Facebook and Instagram Passwords in Plaintext
As part of an investigation into a security breach that occurred in March 2019, when the firm revealed that it had inadvertently kept users' passwords in plaintext on its systems, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta €91 million ($101.56 million).
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union was determined to have been broken by the social media giant in four different articles, according to an investigation that was started by the DPC the following month.
In light of this, the DPC criticized Meta for neglecting to promptly notify the DPC of the data breach, record breaches of personal data pertaining to the storing of user passwords in plaintext, and take appropriate technical precautions to guarantee the privacy of users' passwords read more...