Ireland fined Meta $101 million for storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext and making them broadly available to company employees.
Ireland fined Meta $101 million for storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext and making them broadly available to company employees.
Company failed to follow one of the most sacrosanct rules for password storage.
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you know, I need to bookmark this for whenever people tell me that big tech has basically unassailable security
And I wonder what would happen if this plaintext stuff was discovered in the US by the federal government. Maybe the agency in charge would send them a strongly worded letter.
the dataset would be quietly stashed in an NSA datacenter along with everything else on facebook
Bet it already is.
Why bookmark it when you can save it in a .txt file and email that to all your friends?
Oh don't worry I didn't actually bookmark it I'm just going to post on here asking for the link next time I need it, like a true zoomer
There's a mountain of security researchers out there ensuring that the best encryption is theoretically uncrackble, building entire careers around just the math involved, and every major tech company throws it in the trash through disorganization and greed by just giving people raw DB access, keeping copies of passwords for a "demo" that reaches production, or pissing off the most powerful engineer in the deoartment.