Social media and tech giant Meta (NASDAQ:META) was fined 91 million euros in Ireland and was issued a reprimand for storing passwords of users without encryption, the Irish Data Protection ...

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has been fined €91 million by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) over a serious password-security breach that affected 36 million Facebook and ...

Ireland’s data protection watchdog fined Meta META -2.46% Platforms 91 million euros ($101.7 million) after the Facebook and Instagram owner stored passwords of some social media users on its ...

Ireland's Data Protection Commission on Friday fined Meta more than $100 million for privacy law violations related to failing to properly encrypt and store passwords of the tech giant's users.

Ireland’s privacy regulator today fined Meta Platforms Inc. €91 million over a cybersecurity flaw in its internal systems that came to light five years ago.

The watchdog fined Meta 210 million euros for violations of the European Union's strict data privacy rules involving Facebook and an additional 180 million euros for breaches involving Instagram.

Europe’s GDPR has just dealt its biggest hammer blow yet. Almost exactly five years since the continent’s strict data rules came into force, Meta has been hit with a colossal €1.2 billion ...