Meta fined 91 million euros for storing Instagram and Facebook users’ passwords in a plain text file was slammed.
This serious penalty, imposed by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) based in Europe, came as a result of an investigation into a security breach in 2019. The following official statement was made regarding the penalty imposed on the company, which was revealed to have stored 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords in plain text: “The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) determined that Meta had breached various GDPR rules in connection with the breach. The Commission found that the company did not timely notify the DPC of a personal data breach related to the storage of user passwords in plain text and did not document personal data breaches related to the storage of user passwords in plain text. Meta also violated the GDPR by failing to use appropriate technical measures to ensure the security of users’ passwords against unauthorized operations.” By the way, the incident does not only cover the violation in 2019. It is reported that some user passwords have been stored in an easily readable format on the company’s servers since 2012.
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