> The social media giant Meta has been fined €91 million ($101 million) for accidentally storing hundreds of millions of its users’ passwords in plaintext instead of in an encrypted format on its internal systems.
ACCIDENTALLY? Lol, no. NO. Any developer worth paying even just minimum wage knows you don’t do that. To have META do this with millions of passwords is a colossal multi-stage, multi-fool failure. That kind of thing should never happen.
It’s the software equivalent to a bank “accidentally” leaving everyones cash in paper boxes on the roof of the building. Oopsie!
8x4Ply on
Clearly they need to up the leetcode bar even more. 3x hard in 15 minutes should prevent this going forwards.
WeirdWolf_ferments on
I worked for a healthcare technology company where we discovered that PPI was in plain text where the response of the development team was if no one is complaining why fix it? (Cerner was the company)
Dapper-Percentage-64 on
I wonder how they’ll manage to scrape together the money to pay this ?
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> The social media giant Meta has been fined €91 million ($101 million) for accidentally storing hundreds of millions of its users’ passwords in plaintext instead of in an encrypted format on its internal systems.
ACCIDENTALLY? Lol, no. NO. Any developer worth paying even just minimum wage knows you don’t do that. To have META do this with millions of passwords is a colossal multi-stage, multi-fool failure. That kind of thing should never happen.
It’s the software equivalent to a bank “accidentally” leaving everyones cash in paper boxes on the roof of the building. Oopsie!
Clearly they need to up the leetcode bar even more. 3x hard in 15 minutes should prevent this going forwards.
I worked for a healthcare technology company where we discovered that PPI was in plain text where the response of the development team was if no one is complaining why fix it? (Cerner was the company)
I wonder how they’ll manage to scrape together the money to pay this ?
shut that dumpster fire down now!
That’s pain stupid of Meta.