Hundreds Of Millions Of Instagram And Facebook Passwords Can Be Accessed By Meta Employees

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JAKARTA After four years of investigating Meta, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) finally made a decision. According to the agency, Meta has committed a security breach of passwords.

The DPC revealed Meta had violated security provisions by storing user passwords in the form of plain text on the server. This password comes from the Instagram and Facebook platforms with a total of hundreds of millions.

Senior Meta employees, told Krebs on Security, that there are 600 million passwords found on the server. Millions of passwords have been on Meta servers since 2012 in a very easy format to read.

Another report states that all passwords stored in the server can be searched for by more than 20,000 Facebook employees. Although not available to external parties, this password storage method raises concerns.

"It has been widely accepted that user passwords should not be stored in the form of plain text, given the risk of abuse arising from people who access the data," said Deputy Commissioner of DPC Graham Doyle, quoted from Engadget.

Doyle added that passwords are very sensitive data for endangering user social media accounts. Therefore, the DPC gave a very harsh warning and gave a fairly large nominal fine.

Mark Zuckerberg's company was fined 102 million US dollars (Rp 1.5 trillion). This fine was given for violating the Umjm Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and failed to report the problem quickly when the violation was found.