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Meta received a fine of over $100 million in a five-year EU investigation of about 600 million Facebook passwords stored in plaintext. Click to Skip Ad Closing in ...

Meta is facing a fine of $102 million for storing some users’ passwords in “plaintext”. The social media giant has admitted to poor password management. The Irish Data Protection Commission ...

A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has uploaded to the Chrome Web Store a proof-of-concept extension that can steal plaintext passwords from a website's source code.

All-In-One Security, a WordPress security plugin installed on more than 1 million websites, has issued a security update after being caught three weeks ago logging plaintext passwords and storing ...

Update 5/21/24: Added Atlassian statement to the bottom of the article. Threat actors were found breaching AWS accounts using authentication secrets leaked as plaintext in Atlassian Bitbucket ...

Ireland’s privacy regulator today fined Meta Platforms Inc. €91 million over a cybersecurity flaw in its internal systems that came to light five years ago. The Data Protection Commission, o ...