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Facebook parent company fined €91m over password storage
An inquiry was launched in April 2019 by the Irish Data Protection Commission.
An inquiry was launched in April 2019 after Meta notified the DPC that it had inadvertently stored certain passwords of social media users on its internal systems without encryption. DPC deputy commissioner Graham Doyle said: “It is widely accepted that user passwords should not be stored in 'plaintext' considering the risks of abuse that arise from persons accessing such data. The decision, which was made by the commissioners for data protection, Dr Des Hogan and Dale Sunderland, and notified to Meta on 26 September, includes a reprimand and a fine.
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