This won't affect many people, but it still proves that Apple has to wake up. Soon. Someone (or more than one) is sleeping at the wheel here, no doubt. This is just shameful for *any* company. For a ...

It looks as though Facebook is in hot water once again today as it has been revealed up to 600 million Facebook users had their passwords stored in plain text on the social network’s internal servers ...

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has slapped Meta with a $101.5 million (€91 million) fine after wrapping up an investigation into a security breach in 2019, wherein the company mistakenly ...

Across Facebook and Instagram, Meta has been storing more than half a billion users' passwords in plain text, with some easily readable for more than a decade. The issue was first uncovered in 2019 ...

Facebook left millions of user passwords readable by its employees for years, the company acknowledged Thursday after a security researcher exposed the lapse. By storing passwords in readable plain ...

What Mr. Cole did not say is that "the passwords are now encrypted," let alone that "they are encrypted now, using a strong hash, with cryptographic salt unique to each record." Click to expand... A ...

Meta has been fined €91M ($101M) after it was discovered that to 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords had been stored in plain text. Some of those passwords had been unprotected since 2012, ...