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Meta has been fined €91M ($101M) after it was discovered that to 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords had been stored in plain text.
Meta has been fined €91M ($101M) after it was discovered that to 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords had been...
While Meta didn’t say how many accounts were affected, a senior employee told Krebs on Security back then that the incident involved up to 600 million passwords. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) found that Meta violated several GDPR rules related to the breach. It’s only when regulators start levying fines that will lead to senior execs losing sleep that we’ll see companies take privacy breaches with the level of seriousness they deserve.
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