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

submitted 2 years ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

nah, sha-256 is fine, though you should pick something stronger than "password"

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[–] oo1@lemmings.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Don't worry I don't use that for my internet bank: 19513FDC9DA4FB72A4A05EB66917548D3C90FF94D5419E1F2363EEA89DFEE1DD

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[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 12 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

well, "Password1" is slightly better, I'll make sure not to tell anyone.

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[–] oo1@lemmings.world 7 points 2 years ago

Thanks, I appreciate that. I paid an independent IT security consultant lot of money to help me come up with it - so I don't want to have to change it.

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