{"id":861116,"date":"2024-09-28T10:01:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T04:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=861116"},"modified":"2024-09-28T10:05:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T04:35:54","slug":"eu-privacy-regulator-fines-meta-91-million-euros-over-password-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/09\/28\/eu-privacy-regulator-fines-meta-91-million-euros-over-password-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"EU privacy regulator fines Meta 91 million euros over password storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBLIN: The lead European Union privacy regulator fined social media giant Meta 91 million euros ($101.5 million) on Friday for inadvertently storing some users&#8217; passwords without protection or encryption. <\/p>\n<p>The inquiry was opened five years ago after Meta notified Ireland&#8217;s Data Protection Commission (DPC) that it had stored some passwords in &#8216;plaintext&#8217;. Meta publicly acknowledged the incident at the time and the DPC said the passwords were not made available to external parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBLIN: The lead European Union privacy regulator fined social media giant Meta 91 million euros ($101.5 million) on Friday for inadvertently storing some users&#8217; passwords without protection or encryption. The inquiry was opened five years ago after Meta notified Ireland&#8217;s Data Protection Commission (DPC) that it had stored some passwords in &#8216;plaintext&#8217;. Meta publicly acknowledged the incident at the time and the DPC said the passwords were not made available to external parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-861116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}