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Meta fined $101 million by Ireland for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext (therecord.media)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

101 million is too small for such an epic error.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I think it is just Ireland though (which is why I added Ireland to the title).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Seriously. Didn't they make billions last year? That number should be much, much higher for Zuck & Co. to actually start giving a fuck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I think the PR fall out could be much worse. Time to get them on the news