The European Union’s main data protection regulator has fined Meta* €91 million for storing user passwords unencrypted, Reuters writes.
Author:
https://rb.ru/author/pardaeva/
Subscribe to RB.RU on Telegram
The investigation began in 2019 when the corporation notified the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) that it was storing some user passwords unencrypted.
According to Meta, the company quickly took steps to eliminate the bug as soon as it was identified. During the investigation it was established that third parties did not have access to user data.
To date, regulators have fined Meta a total of €2.5 billion for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into effect in 2018. In 2023, the company received a record fine of €1.2 billion. of euros, which he is still trying to challenge.
Meta is recognized as an extremist organization and banned in Russia
Author:
Karina Pardaeva
Source: RB
I am a professional journalist and content creator with extensive experience writing for news websites. I currently work as an author at Gadget Onus, where I specialize in covering hot news topics. My written pieces have been published on some of the biggest media outlets around the world, including The Guardian and BBC News.
