Ireland's privacy regulator says it's investigating Facebook over the social media giant's recent revelation that it had left hundreds of millions of user passwords exposed.
Ireland's privacy regulator says it's investigating Facebook over the social media giant's recent revelation that it had left hundreds of millions of user passwords exposed.
The company said last month that it had inadvertently stored passwords for users of Facebook, Facebook Lite and Instagram in plain text, making it possible for employees to search them."There is no evidence that these internally stored passwords were abused or improperly accessed," the company said in a statement.
It's the latest regulatory headache for Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has promised to turn the company into a"privacy focused platform."
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