Meta has been storing 600,000,000 Instagram user passwords in plain text for anyone to see since 2012, but the Irish Dates Protection Agency is not having it, and has now fined Mark Zuckerberg USD 101 million.
https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/meta-fined-102-million-for-storing-passwords-in-plain-text-110049679.html
Randahl Fink /
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2024-09-29 04:48:42
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2024-09-29 04:48:42Event JSON
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