Meta fined $101 million for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext
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European regulators fined Meta for an engineering mistake that the social media giant first reported in 2019.
  • FrederikNJS@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    The author of the article is clearly just confusing “encryption”, “cryptography” and “hashing”. Reading the full article makes it clear that the intention was to salt and hash the passwords, not encrypting them.