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Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text (www.engadget.com)
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[–] 3x7x37@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

I can only hope they encrypted them properly at some point

Encryption is reversible, hashing isn't. That's why you use the latter for passwords.