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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Facepalm: Running a social media company the size of Meta may be technically complicated, but some mistakes simply should not happen. One example is storing user passwords in plaintext, which Meta ...

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) in Ireland has fined Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (MPIL) €91 million ($100 million) for storing in plaintext passwords of hundreds of millions of users.

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 ...

Unless they already have huge, passionate followings, newly independent journalists have a tough time rounding up enough ...

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.

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