Meta fined $101 million for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext
therecord.mediaEuropean regulators fined Meta for an engineering mistake that the social media giant first reported in 2019.
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Never assume malice when something can be explained by stupidity
I generally agree.
But any decent code review process would’ve exposed this, or at least a data surveillance system that checks this stuff. I’ve received a few notifications about my logs storing inappropriate data, as a result of a scanning system.
Some manager knew about this during a code review, and signed off on the risk because it was only in-house.