<ul><li>The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (MPIL) €91 million ($100 million) for storing the passwords of hundreds of millions of users in plaintext, violating data protection regulations.</li><li>In 2019, Meta disclosed that it had inadvertently stored some users’ passwords in plaintext on its internal systems, without encrypting them.</li><li>Meta estimated that the incident impacted hundreds of millions of Facebook Lite users, tens of millions of other Facebook users, and tens of thousands of Instagram users.</li><li>The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) stated that it will release its full decision and additional details about the incident at a later date.</li></ul>

Irish Data Protection Commission fined Meta €91 million for storing passwords in readable format

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