Fb mother or father firm Meta has been fined €91m (£75m) by the Irish Information 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 inside techniques with out encryption.
The DPC submitted a draft choice 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 Information Safety Regulation (GDPR).
DPC deputy commissioner Graham Doyle mentioned: “It’s extensively accepted that consumer 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 significantly 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 positive.
In Could 2023, Meta was fined €1.2bn (£1bn) for mishandling information when transferring it between Europe and america.
That positive was additionally issued by Eire’s DPC; the biggest positive imposed beneath the EU’s GDPR privateness legislation.
In 2022, Meta was fined €265m (£220m) after information from 533m individuals in 106 international locations was revealed on a hacking discussion board having been “scraped” from Fb years earlier.