Meta pays the price for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext
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Meta has been fined $101 million by Irish officials for storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext, violating basic security practices. The company's failure to hash passwords made them accessible to employees, with about 2,000 engineers querying the database over 9 million times during a five-year period.
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