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Meta fined $101 million by Ireland for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext (therecord.media)

submitted 1 month ago by sqgl@beehaw.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Any kind of encryption requires storing the key in plain text. Still nice to see Meta being fined though.

[–] FrederikNJS@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month 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.