DPC fine: Meta, plaintext passwords data breach case

Irish Data Protection Commission · decided Sep 27, 2024 · Decided

Decision

Inquiry launched in April 2019 after Meta notified the DPC that it had stored some social media users' passwords in plaintext on internal systems.

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