Meta fined 91m euros for storing passwords in plaintext

The European Union's privacy regulator fined Meta, parent company of Facebook, 91 million euros for storing users' passwords in plaintext. It was a bug—sloppy, but not intentional—and they turned themselves in. The fine was for failure to implement 'data protection by design and by default.' — Read the rest
The post Meta fined 91m euros for storing passwords in plaintext appeared first on Boing Boing.