Fb guardian firm Meta has been fined €91m (£75m) by the Irish Knowledge Safety Fee (DPC) following an investigation into the storage of passwords.
An inquiry was launched in April 2019 after Meta notified the DPC that it had inadvertently saved sure passwords of social media customers on its inner techniques with out encryption.
The DPC submitted a draft resolution to different European information watchdogs in June 2024.
No objections had been raised by the opposite authorities.
Meta has been discovered to have 4 breaches of Common Knowledge Safety Regulation (GDPR).
DPC deputy commissioner Graham Doyle stated: “It’s broadly accepted that person passwords shouldn’t be saved in ‘plaintext’ contemplating the dangers of abuse that come up from individuals accessing such information.
“It should be borne in thoughts, that the passwords the topic of consideration on this case are notably delicate, as they might allow entry to customers’ social media accounts.” he added.
The choice, which was made by the commissioners for information safety, Dr Des Hogan and Dale Sunderland, and notified to Meta on 26 September, features a reprimand and a superb.
In Might 2023, Meta was fined €1.2bn (£1bn) for mishandling data when transferring it between Europe and america.
That superb was additionally issued by Eire’s DPC; the most important superb imposed underneath the EU’s GDPR privateness regulation.
In 2022, Meta was fined €265m (£220m) after information from 533m folks in 106 nations was revealed on a hacking discussion board having been “scraped” from Fb years earlier.