Meta pays the price for storing hundreds of millions of passwords …
WEBSep 27, 2024 · Officials in Ireland have fined Meta $101 million for storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext and making them broadly available to company employees.
Meta fined $101.5M for 2019 breach that exposed hundreds of …
WEBSep 27, 2024 · However the two incidents are also different: Meta’s earlier security lapses affected up to 30 million Facebook users compared to the hundreds of millions whose passwords were said to have been ...
Meta Fined €91 Million for Storing Millions of Facebook and …
WEB5 days ago · The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta €91 million ($101.56 million) as part of a probe into a security lapse in March 2019, when the company disclosed that it had mistakenly stored users' passwords in plaintext in its systems. The investigation, launched by the DPC the next month, found that the …
EU privacy regulator fines Meta 91 million euros over password …
WEBSep 27, 2024 · The lead European Union privacy regulator fined social media giant Meta 91 million euros ($101.5 million) on Friday for inadvertently storing some users' passwords without protection or encryption.
Facebook: Meta fined €91m after password storage investigation
WEBSep 27, 2024 · Facebook parent company Meta has been fined €91m (£75m) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) following an investigation into the storage of passwords. An inquiry was launched in April ...
Meta Fined $102 Million for Storing Users’ Passwords in Plain Text
WEB5 days ago · On Friday, the Irish Data Protection Commission — which is the lead privacy regulator in the European Union — fined social media giant Meta with a $102 million (91 million euros) penalty for...
Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text
WEBSep 27, 2024 · The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta €91 million for a 2019 incident wherein the company stored millions of Facebook and Instagram passwords in plain text.
Meta hit with $102 million privacy fine from ... - Associated Press News
WEBSep 27, 2024 · Meta was punished with a 91 million euro fine from the social media giant’s European Union privacy regulator over a security lapse involving passwords for Facebook users. ... The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. ... The watchdog started investigating in 2019 after it was notified by ...
Meta fined more than $100 million for storing passwords in …
WEBSep 27, 2024 · Emma Roth. 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...
Meta hit with €91 million fine for lax password safety
WEBSep 27, 2024 · In 2022, Meta was fined €265m after data of more than 533 million users was found dumped online. Big tech company Meta is ordered to pay a €91m data protection fine for not having enough user ...