The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta €91 million for a 2019 incident wherein the company stored millions of Facebook and Instagram passwords in plain text.
These things are the other way around. The older something is, the more likely it is to find a bunch of questionable choices, spaghetti code, and security holes.
The questions I have surround the “since 2012” bit. FB exists since 2004, so what happened in 2012? Was it a data dump, a careless logger, system migration, or something else?
These things are the other way around. The older something is, the more likely it is to find a bunch of questionable choices, spaghetti code, and security holes.
The questions I have surround the “since 2012” bit. FB exists since 2004, so what happened in 2012? Was it a data dump, a careless logger, system migration, or something else?