Meta Slammed with $101 Million Fine for Storing Passwords in Plaintext: A Major Security Failure
In a shocking revelation, Meta has been hit with a $101 million fine by Irish regulators for storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext, a major breach of basic cybersecurity practices. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) violation marks another hefty penalty for the social media giant, which has now accumulated…