Company failed to follow one of the most sacrosanct rules for password storage.

23 points

“Pays the price”!? $101 million? In 2023 Meta made a bit over $107 million of pure profit every day.

…apps for connecting to various Meta-owned social networks had logged user passwords in plaintext and stored them in a database that had been searched by roughly 2,000 company engineers, who collectively queried the stash more than 9 million times.

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Only $100 million?

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So what, like, 30 cents per violation?

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This isn’t on meta this is on the garbage engineers who did nothing to fix it.

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10 points

The ones who Meta hired to manage this?

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My boss isn’t responsible for me being shit at my job

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