DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland’s Data Protection Authority (DPC) on Friday fined social media giant Meta 91 million euros for inadvertently storing some users’ passwords without proper protection. encryption.
The investigation was opened five years ago, after Meta reported to the DPC that it had stored certain passwords in “plain text”. Meta had publicly acknowledged the incident and the DPC had stated that the passwords had not been made available to third parties.
“It is widely accepted that user passwords should not be stored in plain text, given the risks of abuse that arise from people having access to this data,” Commissioner Graham Doyle said in a statement. deputy of the DPC.
Due to Meta’s presence in the country, the Irish DPC has so far imposed fines totaling €2.5 billion on the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, including for breaches of the regulations. General Data Protection Act of the European Union (GDPR), including a record fine of 1.2 billion euros in 2023.
(Report by Padraic Halpin, by Etienne Breban, edited by Augustin Turpin)
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