Meta, Facebook's parent company, has been fined €91 million (£75 million) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for storing user passwords unencrypted on its internal systems. The fine is the largest imposed under the EU's GDPR privacy law.
Facebook parent company Meta has been fined €91m by the Irish Data Protection Commission following an investigation into the storage of passwords.
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.No objections were raised by the other authorities.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.
"It must be borne in mind, that the passwords the subject of consideration in this case are particularly sensitive, as they would enable access to users’ social media accounts." he added. 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.
That fine was also issued by Ireland's DPC; the largest fine imposed under the EU's GDPR privacy law.after data from 533m people in 106 countries was published on a hacking forum having been "scraped" from Facebook years earlier.Facebook owner bans Russian state media networksPolice Ombudsman sorry for 'distressing' data leak
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