Meta slapped with €91 million fine by Ireland over massive password breach

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has been fined €91 million by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) over a serious password-security breach that affected 36 million Facebook and Instagram users in the European Economic Area (EEA). The breach, discovered in early 2019, involved Meta inadvertently storing users’ passwords in plain text, exposing them to significant […]