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Meta fined more than $100 million for storing passwords in plaintext.

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced the fine against Meta’s EU branch, saying the company “failed to notify”. the DPC that it “inadvertently” stored user passwords without encryption in 2019.

Facebook stored hundreds of millions of passwords in plain text:
https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/21/18275837/facebook-plain-text-password-storage-hundreds-millions-users

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/27/24255803/meta-fined-more-than-100-million-for-storing-passwords-in-plaintext