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.
  • 3x7x37@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I can only hope they encrypted them properly at some point

    Encryption is reversible, hashing isn’t. That’s why you use the latter for passwords.