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Meta fined $101.5M for 2019 breach that exposed hundreds of millions of Facebook passwords
Meta has been hit with yet another privacy penalty in Europe. On Friday, Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced a
Meta Faces $101 Million Fine for Storing Facebook Passwords in Plaintext
Five years after the incident was uncovered and fixed, a European regulator is penalizing Facebook parent company Meta for violating the European Union's GDPR laws on data privacy.
Meta fined $101.8M for storing 600M Facebook passwords in plain text
Meta received a fine of over $100 million in a five-year EU investigation of about 600 million Facebook passwords stored in plaintext.
Meta stored 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords in plain text
Across Facebook and Instagram, Meta has been storing more than half a billion users' passwords in plain text, with some easily readable for more than a decade.
Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta €91 million for a 2019 incident wherein the company stored millions of Facebook and Instagram passwords in plain text.
Meta Fined €91 Million for Storing Millions of Facebook and Instagram Passwords in Plaintext
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta €91 million ($101.56 million) as part of a probe into a security lapse in March 2019, when the company disclosed that it had mistakenly stored users' passwords in plaintext in its systems.
Meta Faces €91 Million Fine from Ireland Over GDPR Violation
In a significant regulatory move, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, €91 million ($102 million) for a major breach in password security.
Meta blocks links to the hacked JD Vance dossier on Threads, Instagram, and Facebook
Meta is restricting links on Threads, Instagram, and Facebook that lead to Ken Klippenstein’s newsletter containing a JD ...
Meta's Orion Smart Glasses Could Be Revolutionary: Is the $2 Trillion Club in its Future?
With so much going on in AI, investors seem to be looking past its Metaverse segment. That may seem odd, as the company once ...
Meta has rebuilt Instagram and Facebook for its Quest headsets
Meta has rebuilt Meta Horizon OS for spatial computing, bringing better support for 2D apps like YouTube, Facebook and ...
Meta’s going to put AI-generated images in your Facebook and Instagram feeds
One example (embedded below) shows several AI-generated images of “an enchanted realm, where magic fills the air.” But others ...
Leaked JD Vance dossier has been blocked on Threads, Instagram, and Facebook
Meta has blocked the leaked JD Vance dossier on Threads, Instagram, and Facebook.
How Meta distanced itself from politics | Analysis
Zuckerberg is driving an effort to de-emphasize content about campaigns and candidates on the tech giant’s platforms ahead of ...
Meta bans Russian media outlets, including RT, from Facebook and Instagram over ‘foreign interference’
Russia-based broadcasters and web sites such as RT, Rossiya Segodnya will no longer be available to users of Facebook and ...
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Zuckerberg's Meta Gamble Pays Off; Now Fourth-Richest Person Globally
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder behind Meta (previously Facebook), leaped into the ranks of the world's fourth-richest person ...