Coming as another penalty for Meta under the EU’s privacy regulations, the breach was discovered in a DPC investigation, initiated in 2019, and revealed that the company inadvertently stored a subset of Facebook users’ passwords in plain text, which allowed employees to access them. Meta’s violation of security protocols led to the fine, considering that storing passwords in plain text is believed to neglect basic security measures.
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