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Meta fined $101.8M for storing 600M Facebook passwords in plain text

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Summary
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78% Informative

Facebook stored some 600 million Facebook account passwords in plaintext and then pretended like it was no big deal.

The passwords were not hacked, though Facebook employees might have had access to them.

Five years later , Facebook is known as Meta , but its Facebook problems did not go away with the name change.

The Irish Data Protection Commission’s (DPC) investigation found that Meta ( MPIL ) infringed various GDPR articles.

The bulk of the users affected were hundreds of millions of Facebook Lite users.

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73

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68

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64

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

55

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not offensive

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not hateful

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not detected

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not detected

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short-lived

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