Facebook and Instagram passwords were stored in plaintext, Meta fined
The Data Protection Commission has fined Meta $101M because 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords were stored in plaintext.
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19 million plaintext passwords exposed by incorrectly configured Firebase instances
Researchers scanned the internet for incorrectly configured Firebase instances and what they found was frightening.
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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 10:53:50 +0000
Tens of thousands of records with financial data were left in plaintext in a database that wasn’t protected with a password.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/I_WpJujTJuc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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