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Officials in Ireland have fined Meta $101 million for storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext and making them broadly available to company employees.
Meta disclosed the lapse in early 2019. The company said that apps for connecting to various Meta-owned social networks had logged user passwords in plaintext and stored them in a database that had been searched by roughly 2,000 company engineers, who collectively queried the stash more than 9 million times.
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When Meta disclosed the lapse in 2019, it was clear the company had failed to adequately protect hundreds of millions of passwords."It is widely accepted that user passwords should not be stored in plaintext, considering the risks of abuse that arise from persons accessing such data," Graham Doyle, deputy commissioner at Ireland's Data Protection Commission, said. "It must be borne in mind, that the passwords, the subject of consideration in this case, are particularly sensitive, as they would enable access to users' social media accounts."
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To date, the EU has fined Meta more than $2.23 billion (2 billion euros) for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which went into effect in 2018. That amount includes last year's record $1.34 billion (1.2 billion euro) fine, which Meta is appealing.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday October 04, @05:57PM (9 children)
The classic, and true, answer is: it varies. From free taste promos up to multiple dollars per targeted impression for certain things. I think it's usually a few cents.
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(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday October 04, @06:08PM (8 children)
Tell ya what, I'll even do them a favor and not try any of their AI-generation tools. The power they save will make up for it super quick. :D
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(Score: 1, Offtopic) by janrinok on Friday October 04, @06:55PM (7 children)
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: 1) by Tork on Friday October 04, @08:26PM (6 children)
(sorry for the off-topicness)
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(Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday October 04, @08:28PM (5 children)
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: 1) by Tork on Friday October 04, @08:40PM (4 children)
For the record I did find once that only some emojis work in the subject line when making posts, I've gotten it to reject the post before. I remember thinking it wasn't the emoji, it was that it was one of the more recent ones. I just assumed the identifier has a limit or something. Heh now I'm starting to wonder if the search feature will find emojis. 🥨
ps sorry if i went too far off-topic... um... does plain text include emojis? 🤡
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(Score: 1) by Tork on Friday October 04, @08:41PM (3 children)
Aw damn! I couldn't find the pretzel.
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(Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday October 04, @08:45PM (2 children)
I'm not too concerned if you are not - other emojis on other sigs are still showing in colour so I don't think it is a bug at this end.
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: 1) by Tork on Friday October 04, @08:55PM (1 child)
I do appreciate you keeping an eye on that, thank you.
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(Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday October 04, @09:00PM
The bug is reproducible. It is a Brave/Chrome issue. Other browsers are working fine.
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.