Ireland fines Meta 91 million euros over EU data breach
Facebook-owner stored certain passwords of social media users
by AFP · Gulf NewsDublin: An Irish regulator helping to police European Union data privacy said Friday it had fined Facebook-owner Meta 91 million euros ($102 million) for password-security breaches.
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The Data Protection Commission criticised Meta for failing to put in place appropriate security measures to protect users' password data and for taking too long to alert the regulator over the issue.