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1. BrianKrebs (briankrebs@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 02:46:08 JST BrianKrebs

   In March 2019, I broke a story about how Facebook had been storing unencrypted password data for hundreds of millions of Facebook users.

   https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/facebook-stored-hundreds-of-millions-of-user-passwords-in-plain-text-for-years/

   Today, the lead European Union privacy regulator fined Meta ~$100 million for that security/privacy failure, which Facebook said could have allowed any one of its 200,000 employees to see the plaintext passwords for up to 600M accounts.

   https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-privacy-regulator-fines-meta-91-million-euros-over-password-storage-2024-09-27/

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 02:46:08 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     @briankrebs awesome 🙌 Facebook is the worst and it’s ceo is entitled man child