\u200bThe Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta \u20ac91 million ($101.56 million) as part of a probe into a security lapse in March 2019, when the company disclosed that it had mistakenly stored users’ passwords in plaintext in its systems.
\nThe investigation, launched by the DPC the next month, found that the social media giant violated four different articles under the European Union’s\u00a0The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta \u20ac91 million ($101.56 million) as part of a probe into a security lapse in March 2019, when the company disclosed that it had mistakenly stored users’ passwords in plaintext in its systems.
\nThe investigation, launched by the DPC the next month, found that the social media giant violated four different articles under the European Union’s\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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