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sqgl ( sqgl@beehaw.org )  to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Meta fined $101 million by Ireland for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext

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Meta fined $101 million by Ireland for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext

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sqgl ( sqgl@beehaw.org )  to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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Meta fined $101 million for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext
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European regulators fined Meta for an engineering mistake that the social media giant first reported in 2019.
  • erenkoylu ( erenkoylu@lemmy.ml ) 
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    101 million is too small for such an epic error.

    • sqgl ( sqgl@beehaw.org ) OP
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      I think it is just Ireland though (which is why I added Ireland to the title).

    • onlooker ( onlooker@lemmy.ml ) 
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      Seriously. Didn’t they make billions last year? That number should be much, much higher for Zuck & Co. to actually start giving a fuck.

    • Possibly linux ( possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) 
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      I think the PR fall out could be much worse. Time to get them on the news

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