Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text | The Irish Data Protection Commission found that the company violated several GDPR rules.
https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/meta-fined-102-million-for-storing-passwords-in-plain-text-110049679.html
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Gosh Meta can’t safely and correctly but Republicans can remove amazing numbers of voters from the rolls.😗😗😗
I wish that $$ would go to the users who’s passwords were leaked. Meta has now racked up over 7.3 billion $$ in consumer-protection-related fines, 7.2 billion in *different* privacy violation fines. Meta is a cash cow for some governments. Of course Facebook is the primary entity in those settlements.
https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/meta-platforms-inc
This is like CS 102 stuff, how are these people pulling massive salaries while the most basic security isn’t followed?
Searchable, readable passwords, accessible by over 20,000 FB employees. But hey, at *least* they ‘weren’t made available to external parties’.
> While Meta didn’t say how many accounts were affected, a senior employee told Krebs on Security back then that the incident involved up to 600 million passwords. Some of the passwords had been stored in easily readable format in the company’s servers since 2012. They were also reportedly searchable by over 20,000 Facebook employees, though the DPC has clarified in its decision that they were at least not made available to external parties.
Sorry. Let me correct my shortcomings. Given the level and accuracy that I would assume Meta was using to store passwords for clients it seemed they were extremely lacking in their diligence. This is a company that deals solely with customer data and its importance. I then extrapolated the likelihood that clerks in states that may appear to have political biases would be able to successfully accomplish that task. I thought it unlikely and posted as carefully as maybe they checked the voting rolls. Sorry