The lead European Union privateness regulator fined social media big Meta 91 million euros ($101.5 million) on Friday for inadvertently storing some customers’ passwords with out safety or encryption.
The inquiry was opened 5 years in the past after Meta notified Eire’s Knowledge Safety Fee (DPC) that it had saved some passwords in ‘plaintext’. Meta publicly acknowledged the incident on the time and the DPC stated the passwords weren’t made accessible to exterior events.
“It’s extensively accepted that person passwords shouldn’t be saved in plaintext, contemplating the dangers of abuse that come up from individuals accessing such knowledge,” Irish DPC Deputy Commissioner Graham Doyle stated in an announcement.
A Meta spokesperson stated the corporate took quick motion to repair the error after figuring out it throughout a safety assessment in 2019, and that there isn’t any proof the passwords have been abused or accessed improperly.
Meta engaged constructively with the DPC all through the inquiry, the spokesperson added in an announcement on Friday.
The DPC is the lead EU regulator for a lot of the high U.S. web companies because of the location of their EU operations within the nation.
It has up to now fined Meta a complete of two.5 billion euros for breaches below the bloc’s Common Knowledge Safety Regulation’s (GDPR), launched in 2018, together with a file 1.2 billion euro nice in 2023 that Meta is interesting.
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