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Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text (www.engadget.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

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