Ireland fined Meta $101 million for storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext and making them broadly available to company employees.

InevitableSwing [none/use name] · 3 months ago

Ireland fined Meta $101 million for storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext and making them broadly available to company employees.

Barx [none/use name] · edit-2 3 months ago

There's a mountain of security researchers out there ensuring that the best encryption is theoretically uncrackble, building entire careers around just the math involved, and every major tech company throws it in the trash through disorganization and greed by just giving people raw DB access, keeping copies of passwords for a "demo" that reaches production, or pissing off the most powerful engineer in the deoartment.

Ireland fined Meta $101 million for storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext and making them broadly available to company employees.

Ireland fined Meta $101 million for storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext and making them broadly available to company employees.

Meta pays the price for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext