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Irish DPC fines Meta €91m for password storage failures

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Meta Ireland stored social media users passwords in ‘plaintext’ without encryption.

Meta Platforms Ireland Limited has once again been fined by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for EU GDPR violations. This time, the social media giant was fined €91m ($101m) for storing users’ passwords without encryption or cryptographic protection.

The DPC started investigating Meta in April 2019 after it notified

“It