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In a damning privacy revelation, Facebook admitted to storing “hundreds of millions” of account passwords in plain text — a flabbergasting breach with good data security practices. “As part of a ...

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta €91 million (about $137 million CAD) for a 2019 security breach in which the company mistakenly stored user passwords in plain text. Moreover, the ...

The best password managers are meant to keep all your logins and credit card info safe and secure, but a major new vulnerability has just put users of the KeePass password manager at serious risk of ...