According to a statement from the regulator, the Irish Data Protection Commission fined Facebook's parent company, €91 million after investigating password storage in Ireland. The Facebook owner once informed the Data Protection Commission that it had inadvertently stored certain passwords of certain social media users in “plain text” in its internal system without cryptographic protection or encryption measures, and the Commission began an investigation into the password leak in April 2019.

According to a statement from the regulator, the Irish Data Protection Commission fined Facebook's parent company, €91 million after investigating password storage in Ireland. The Facebook owner once informed the Data Protection Commission that it had inadvertently stored certain passwords of certain social media users in “plain text” in its internal system without cryptographic protection or encryption measures, and the Commission began an investigation into the password leak in April 2019.