Summary:
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Meta has been fined $102 million by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for storing over 600 million user passwords in plain text, an issue that went undetected for years.
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The breach predominantly affected non-US users, particularly those using Facebook Lite, with some Meta engineers having access to this sensitive data for over a decade.
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Meta reported the issue months after it was discovered in 2019, violating several GDPR regulations, and has now been reprimanded alongside the substantial fine.
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