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Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text (www.engadget.com)
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[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Considering how old Facebook is…. They probably never bothered to upgrade the authentication system because “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” and it didn’t matter to their revenue.

[–] magic_smoke@links.hackliberty.org 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Password hashing has been standard practice far longer than Facebook has existed. Even by 2004's awful, 'archaic' standards.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago

At the time Facebook was invented, plaintext passwords had been a joke for years.