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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 sqgl@beehaw.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, Facebook did have an auth method that involved promoting you for your password so that they could log into your email and get an OTP iirc

It wasn't zuckerberg doing something in secret. It was an explicit protocol that was terrible. They got called out and stopped it. Kinda like early days of open graph.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Zuckerburg abused to attack journalists