The inquiry was opened 5 years in the past after Meta notified Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) that it had saved some passwords in ‘plaintext’. Meta publicly acknowledged the incident on the time and the DPC stated the passwords weren’t made accessible to exterior events.
“It is extensively accepted that consumer passwords shouldn’t be saved in plaintext, contemplating the dangers of abuse that come up from individuals accessing such knowledge,” Irish DPC Deputy Commissioner Graham Doyle stated in an announcement.
A Meta spokesperson stated the corporate took speedy motion to repair the error after figuring out it throughout a safety evaluation in 2019, and that there isn’t a proof the passwords had been abused or accessed improperly.
Meta engaged constructively with the DPC all through the inquiry, the spokesperson added in an announcement on Friday.
The DPC is the lead EU regulator for a lot of the prime U.S. web corporations as a result of location of their EU operations within the nation.
It has up to now fined Meta a complete of two.5 billion euros for breaches underneath the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation’s (GDPR), launched in 2018, together with a document 1.2 billion euro high quality in 2023 that Meta is interesting.
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