The Irish Data Protection Commission fined Meta €91 million for storing passwords in plain text that were accessible to thousands of Meta employees.
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Joining Facebook itself, it appears as though the passwords of millions of Instagram users were also being stored in a 'readable format', though no improper use was determined to have taken place.
In a mind-boggling series of tweets, T-Mobile Austria's social media managers have confirmed that it stores customer passwords as plain text because its security is "amazingly good".
