Meta’s Security Oversight Costs Millions in GDPR Penalties

Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has been fined €91 million ($150 million AUD) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for storing user passwords as unencrypted ‘plaintext’ on its internal systems. The penalty comes five years after the company first acknowledged the security lapse.

Source: Image & Data Manager

 


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